Long-Range Electric Vehicles Multiplying Like Rabbits
bunny nestles under its mother’s ears
Yes, 2019 brought us great sadness in terms of environmental and humanitarian disasters, but it also packed a huge passel of joy for our Christmas stockings. In particular, the electric transportation space continued its expansion with the introduction of a bumper crop of cars that sport ranges over 200 miles, thus removing, or at least greatly reducing this key concern from the mind of prospective buyers.
This industry will soon reach an inflection point, at which the demand for gasoline- and diesel-powered cars will fall to the point that automakers begin a rapid phase-out in favor of EVs.
Speaking for myself, I’ve spent my last dime on internal combustion engines. When it’s time to lose my Prius, I’m following the mantra we hear so often today: “No plug, no deal.”
We commonly think of mathematics as an objective discipline. Regardless of one’s sexual turn-ons or aesthetic sensibilities of favorite novelists, 2 + 2 still equals 4. One might think this applies to political opinions, but here, things starts to get a bit twisted. 
Just a bit more than half a century ago, the right wing here in the United States was represented by our popular Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who left us with this: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. 
The pic here is a good example of what psychologists refer to as functional fixity. We so strongly assume the mistake is in the array of numbers that our minds are “fixed” and we find it difficult to look elsewhere.
Most of us don’t need an expert in crimes against humanity to tell us that what the United States has done to 5400 children and their parents on the southern border is disgraceful. For the rest of us, let me introduce Benjamin Ferencz.
From the New York Times: In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. 
What would the American political scene be like if more people had the financial resources and emotional bandwidth required to immerse themselves into it?
New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when it comes to taking care of its people and the planet as a whole. 
As I’ve mentioned, I’m one of more than 100,000 members of the 
I often use this space to comment on the probable trajectory that the U.S. is likely to take in global competitiveness over the coming decades. And, though I normally look at this from a number of different perspectives, the meme here really says it all. 
