A friend who teaches 6th grade in a public school in Hawaii notes:
The majority of his students have no real aspirations for learning or academic achievement.
Their parents don’t care any more than the kids themselves. (more…)
A reader asked me to comment on the validity of the Wave Roller, a device seen here for extracting the energy from ocean waves. It’s described by its proponents thus: (more…)
Americans generally hate being tapped for jury duty, and often come up with excuses to be dismissed. The meme here offers a few suggestions that are sure to get the job done, if they wouldn’t be regarded as patently absurd by the judge trying the case. (more…)
Whenever I come across something that I want to comment on, but it seems so totally asinine that it might be fake news, I immediately plug it into Google and see what pops up. Could the discussion at left here really have taken place? Jeanine Pirro is an actual legal professional, but one who just happens not to understand the most basic principle that guides American jurisprudence? (more…)
A few points on the trillion tree initiative:
• This is an irrefutably good idea, as trees absorb CO2 and convert it to both above- and below-ground tissue that remains sequestered, at least until the end of their lives. (more…)
The economic losses from 2010 -2019, according to Aon’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2019 Annual Report (pdf), hit nearly $3 trillion. That’s up from 1.8 trillion recorded between 2000 and 2009. (more…)
Readers may find this piece in The Independent to be of interest.
I would submit that it’s more complicated than that; it depends on what it actually does mean to be an American.
In a way, America is at war with itself. (more…)
I had to laugh when I saw this.
I love PBS and I understand the horrors that climate change poses, but ….
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet threatens to plunge our coastal cities under water, and we’re talking about danger to nearby kayakers? Guys, may I speak with your editorial staff, please?
Yes, Trump’s lawyers are hopelessly unprepared and undertalented. As someone put it, “This is like watching the New York Yankees play the Bad News Bears.” (more…)
At this point it’s unclear how successful Trump will be in leading this country further into the putrid miasma of racism, violence, cruelty, environmental ruin, executive lawlessness, and all the rest. What’s completely certain is that, as long as there is an organized civilization on Earth, historians will be studying this whole phenomenon with great interest. (more…)
