The impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate is arguably the single most important event in this country’s history, as it’s a watershed moment that could push us over a cliff into lawlessness. If Trump isn’t held accountable, we will have become a monarchy, just as our founders most greatly feared, in which those at the top can do anything they wish to further their personal agendas with complete impunity. (more…)
We’re just now becoming aware of the incredible talent that Russian operatives brought to bear to help elect Trump in 2016. As I looked through some of the screen shots below, I thought how this guy, or perhaps a team, must have celebrated with their comrades for months on end following the outcome. Vodskies for the house! (more…)
Nice outfits, guys! You with the gray scarf: Love the knee pads.
Seriously, a few thousand white nationalists and other cretins held a protest in Richmond, Virginia today, expressing their viewpoint that any gun laws, regardless of how minor, are tantamount to repealing the entirety of the Second Amendment.
Speaking of the U.S. Constitution, is brandishing weapons made for war, threatening violence in order to intimidate government, protected under the First Amendment? Where does peaceful assembly end and terrorism begin?
Here’s a fabulous article that nails the seven most important reasons that the adoption curve of electric vehicles has been so unexciting.
A point I found interesting is “lack of clear superiority” (in terms of performance). (more…)
Truth and reason are coming up on the losing end in present-day U.S. politics, and perhaps the meme here indicates the reason. Yes, those who try to draw comparisons between the Third Reich 75 years ago and today’s United States are usually derided, but it sure is interesting that we have a president who tells 14 – 15 baldfaced lies per day and still stands as the most powerful person on Earth. There was a day not too long ago in which that simply would not have worked.
Controlling a population with propaganda is an artform, one our civilization presumed had hit its high-water mark in those ugly days. Let’s hope that our current government by lies (prevaritocracy?) is a passing phase, one that will soon be swept away.
At the end of their lives, most trees re-release the CO2 they’ve absorbed back into the atmosphere, whether they decay naturally or are consumed in fire. (more…)
Obviously, we shouldn’t expect what’s pictured here to be the norm, if for no other reason than even fast charging takes longer that anyone would want to stand around in what used to be a gas station. Yet at the same time it’s a reminder of the transition from petroleum-based to electric transportation. (more…)
Heavy rains have caused flash floods in large parts of fire-ravaged Australia, but they’re the answer to many people’s prayers nonetheless.
Climate change isn’t a pretty thing, but when relief comes from one of its disasters (what would formerly have been called “natural disasters”), the celebrants aren’t limited to people, at least from the looks of the pic here.
Iceland is an admirable land, and there is certainly a reason to smile at this announcement, but I would let the free market decide on matters where no real injury is born, except to those willing to choose it. (more…)
From the “Good News Network“:
David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, recently wrote an editorial in the Financial Times in which he laid out the premise behind a $750 billion plan for a decade of investing, financing, and advisory activity that will exclusively cover nine climate-critical areas such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and carbon reductions. (more…)
