It sure does seem like the world is coming crashing down around the U.S. president:
Washington (CNN) Retired Adm. William McRaven said Thursday that the US is under attack from President Donald Trump, who he believes is working to “destroy” the country from “within” and “without.”
Here’s a fabulous article that analyzes four semi-distinct phases of renewable energy adoption, each of which is a function of the plummeting costs of solar and wind, each of which comes about for a different reason. (more…)
There is some controversy as to whether actor/director Ron Howard actually wrote this or not. In any case, Howard actually is a liberal, and this is worth a read. FWIW, I don’t disagree with a single word here. – Craig
January 24 at 5:41 AM (more…)
Here’s an article in Forbes that examines why the quality of our air is eroding.
The main irony of rolling back legislation like The Clean Air Act is that these laws were actually good for the economy, lowering healthcare costs and improving worker productivity.
Now they’re eviscerated, if not gone altogether.
Maybe they can be turned around in November.
This is what we’ve become. Barbarians.
The predominant emotion that people in other countries regard the United States is pity. No wonder.
The whole Trump phenomenon makes me want to cry. (more…)
Regarding the meme here, reader Tom Ujszaszy says, “And that is one way to get Trump another four years.”
It’s true that third party candidates have crippled the Democrats in the past, though a Libertarian is going to take far more votes from Trump than Biden. Libertarians want to dismantle the government, and move virtually everything into the private sector. That sounds suspiciously like what Steve Bannon said about the Trump administration’s mission to “dismantle the administrative state.” (more…)
In response to the discussion on the COVID-19 mortality rate, my mom notes: Looks as if statistics can say whatever you want.
Yes, that’s true, and remarkably, this is not a new idea. I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.” He was amazing. (more…)
In a conversation I had with my mother last night, she pointed out that, according to politically right-of-center RealClearPolitics.com, our Centers for Disease Control estimates the death rate of COVID-19 at 0.004%, and she wonders how that jibes with the much higher figures I quote. To which I respond: (more…)
Here’s a pictorial depiction of the state of the swamp that is the United States federal government.
In each case, the person tasked with protecting a given function such that it serves the people is someone who spent his/her career ripping that function apart for private profit. (more…)
Will this energize Trump’s base? I suppose, but these are people who have already shown they believe their leader was sent by God to make America great again, and they couldn’t care less that Trump is a cruel, pathological liar, war-monger, dictator loving, sex abuser. They would vote for him regardless of anything he says or does, no matter how vile, so what’s the upside here? (more…)
