Here’s a cogent interview with a journalist who explores why there is so little good news in today’s media; everything’s bad today, and it will be even worse tomorrow. He notes that this is the precise opposite of the way we raise our children: we encourage, we celebrate success, we describe the world as a nice place to live. (more…)
“Mississippi’s never going to be China.” True. In China, children get good educations and compete effectively in the world economy. Right now, there are 362,000 Chinese students earning doctorate degrees.
Meanwhile, Mississippi ranks 48th in education among the 50 states. (more…)
From Business Insider:
• In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, President Donald Trump’s main focus was on keeping the number of infections low, Politico reporter Dan Diamond told NPR on Thursday. (more…)
When you come across Tweets like this one, ostensibly from La Mesa, California lawyer Scott McMillan, isn’t your first reaction to call it BS? Isn’t it impossible that someone with a JD degree, regardless of how far to the political right, could believe that it might be a good idea for 8,275,066 Americans to be sent to their deaths by the coronavirus in order to save the economy? This is an idea that would make a Nazi blush. (more…)
From this article:
President Donald Trump’s latest target, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told a radio station Friday that medical supply vendors informed her they’ve been told “not to send stuff” to her state amid the battle against COVID-19. (more…)
This is our 10,000th blog post here. It contains no political rant, viewpoints on cleantech, or pleas for environmental stewardship…just gratitude.
Thanks to our many commenters, content contributors, interns, graphic artists, video producers, web designers, TV and radio hosts who’ve had me on their shows, college professors who’ve made my books mandatory reading, trade show marketing partners, subject matter experts who volunteered for interviews, proofreaders, book publishers, and especially, to our clients. (more…)
From ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich, writing about the meme here:
A teenager has died from coronavirus after being denied treatment. The teen sought help at an urgent care facility, but was turned away because he didn’t have health insurance. (more…)
A reader sent me this piece on the Hobby Lobby, and added, “Christians for Satan.” Now that’s funny.
What isn’t funny, of course, is how decidedly unChristian these people are. (more…)
Here’s evidence that there are places on our planet in which the uber-rich don’t go out of their way to inflict punishment on everyone else.
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic. (more…)
