Brother, I feel your pain.
I try to write posts about whatever comes up in the news cycle, e.g., the concept that biodiversity and climate stability play a role in preventing another pandemic.
Having said that, the acute situations really are making it hard to focus the world’s attention on this long-term challenge.
Over the past 48 hours, Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show lost four major advertisers: T-Mobile, SmileDirectClub, Disney and Papa John’s.
Are these companies honestly on the right side of the issue, or do they simply not want to be associated with ugly politics of racial hatred? Bear in mind that the crescendo in Fox hate-casting is occurring at the precise moment at which the vast majority of the country is trying to get past this.
Frankly, I don’t know, but it’s good to see this in any case.
This may sound like a peculiar thing to say, and I’m essentially kidding, but all this police homicide gives us an opportunity to brush up on the differences between various types of murder and manslaughter. (more…)
The meme here is from American political scientist and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas, assistant professor in global politics at University College London.
This is exactly the way I feel. The very best we can hope for is that Trump will be leaving us, while knowing that these 41% won’t.
What that bodes for America is impossible to know at this point, but it certainly isn’t good.
Re: the meme here, a reader notes, “Delusional.”
I would call it more “criminal” than “delusional.” Thousands of people will die as a result of this malicious bull****.
The integration of large percentages of renewable energy is notoriously limited because of variability, though there are several tacks engineers take to mitigate this.
One, of course, is gas peaker plants. In some parts of the U.S., large solar and wind farms are granted permits only if an equivalent amount of gas power is installed as well. This overuse of natural gas is problematic in many ways, one of which is the methane leakages, some of which go unreported, that send this greenhouse gas, one that is far more potent than CO2, spewing into our atmosphere. (more…)
So much has changed in the last two weeks, most of it quite positive. Linked here is what Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles looked like earlier today. We have cops protesting along side (and dancing with) protesters. There are millions of people around the globe supporting us, flowing us positive energy, in the hopes that, by the time the acute phase of this is over, the U.S. will have made a quantum leap forward in race relations, at least as far as policing is concerned.
But it’s hard to look at this picture and not think: Damn. This isn’t going to be easy.
I have two questions about the case here:
Given that he said, “I’m going to choke you out,” and then proceeded immediately to asphyxiate his victim as he promised, why isn’t this murder 1? He’s charged with an accidental homicide after announcing he was going to kill the guy?
Unrelated to that, why are these police murderers so effing stupid as to commit crimes like these in broad public view when everyone and his dog has cell phones? Regardless of how he’s charged, we won’t be seeing this smug little ass**** for at least 15 years. I would think that even the dullest, angriest, most violence-prone cop would be thinking that 15 years in a cage doesn’t sound like a pleasant experience.
In my quest to learn Spanish, I try to read articles on renewable energy in that language. Here we have:
La empresa líder mundial en energía mareomotriz, Nova Innovation, ha completado con éxito su proyecto de fabricar su turbina mareomotriz de accionamiento directo de última generación, lista para el mercado. (more…)
Note the comments here from Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Chris: I love you like a brother, but if this is as bad as it’s going to get over the next five months, I’ll be amazed.
