It’s said that at the center of every good joke there is a core truth. Here, as we see the Trump legal team struggling with one pathetic defense tactic after another, it appears that their answer lies in more excuses, not better ones. It’s like, “We lose money on every sale, but we make it up on volume.”
This article describes how the U.S. Treasury Secretary continues to insist Trump’s tax cuts aren’t blowing up the national debt, even though this is clearly untrue. A couple of points: (more…)
No, it’s almost the precise opposite. Geneticist David Suzuki reminds us that, in science, most of our ideas will ultimately prove to be incorrect.
As sobering a thought as that may be, however, we need to consider where we’d be in the absence of science, i.e., a world driven by superstition and innuendo.
Then we have to think about the pure evil required to systematically remove science from policy-making. (more…)
Well, let’s put all this into perspective. Trump partially paid for this by kicking 700K hungry people off food stamps. “Partially” is a key word there, however; it saved a whopping $1.32 billion, or 0.11% of war spending.
As I wrote yesterday, I recently had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama.
I thought readers would be interested to know that he now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, and while he remains heavily involved in improving people’s experiences with our nation’s parks. He runs the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity, which: (more…)
I had the good fortune to sit next to Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama, on a four-hour-long flight last night.
It was a lengthy time period sufficient to hear some pretty cool stories, my favorite of which pertained to the events shortly after he resigned when Donald Trump was elected in the 2016 presidential election. (more…)
A reader, apparently a Trump supporter, sent me the meme here, and wrote, “I’m beginning to question his (Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s) loyalties,” spawning the following conversation: (more…)
Regarding the meme here:
My mother will be gratified to see that I’m quoting the (conservative) Wall Street Journal. (more…)
Shorty after Trump was elected in 2016, I told my wife:
You know, there is a non-zero chance that one of two things is going to happen: (more…)
The text here translates into English as “Little wind energy generator can make a house energy independent.” But doesn’t that seem like a stretch, just looking at it? If you were to put something the size of a small ceiling fan on your roof, let the wind blow through it, and convert that mechanical energy into electricity, does it seem feasible that it could power your HVAC, lighting, appliances, etc? (more…)
