Sure wish I had a dollar for every time my wife has expressed these precise words.  It’s a thought that she and Barbara Bush share with the majority of American women, not to mention the vast majority of women around the globe.

The answer, as far as I can tell, is that female Trump supporters have strong values concerning white supremacy, xenophobia, military aggression, cruelty to immigrants, and punishing the poor.  In fact, these values are so strong that they far outweigh any umbrage that these women might take at Trump as a p***y-grabbing sexual abuser.

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Take a moment and look in this guy’s eyes.  Not exactly what one would call kind-looking, are they?  Meet 27-year-old Patrik Jordan Matthews, active member of global neo-Nazi terrorist group The Base, arrested on various charges associated with automatic weaponry in advance of the gun rally at North Carolina’s Capitol Building.

Does he look the part, or what? Must be an absolute chick magnet. (more…)

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Many Americans report feeling like they’re on a merry-go-round, today wondering how something so odd and terrible could be possible, tomorrow learning why, but the following day scratching their heads again. (more…)

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The efforts to which the Trump administration has gone to rip apart public education are disgusting, obviously aimed at manufacturing a new generation whose vast ignorance supersedes even that of our present population. (more…)

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The sheer volume of brazen felonies committed by Trump’s closest associates boggles the mind.  The only thing more astounding is that tens of million of Americans still support this crime family, most of whom, at the same time, considering themselves “good people.”  Incomprehensible.

Contrary to the message on the embezzler’s T-shirt at left here, Roger Stone actually did several things wrong. (more…)

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Electric vehicle maven Ed Benjamin posts the meme here, noting, “We don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”

Right on–and fortunately, this seems to be where we’re going.  Fewer Hummers.  More Priuses and EVs.   Less bottled water.  More bans on single-use plastic.  Fewer coal plants.  More rooftop solar.  Fewer bee-killing pesticides.  More farmer’s markets.  Fewer steaks.  More plant-based meat.

More people every day are simply taking the time to think about their impact on the planet and doing, within reason, what they can do to reduce it.

That’s really all anyone can ask.

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Here’s a battery energy storage concept that is proposed for cell phone charging and high-efficiency lighting in the many parts of the developing world that, otherwise, have no access to electricity.  The product will cost about $12, and the consumables (thin sheets of iron, paper, and some sort of sulfur-salt compound) run about $0.10 per day, the spent chemical waste discarded at the end of each day. (more…)

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Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally.

Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists: (more…)

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Here’s a bulky, expensive, electrically motorized kitchen appliance that chops up food waste and renders it appropriate for use as plant fertilizer.

People with back yards can accomplish the same thing, free of charge, using zero energy, giving up no kitchen space, with no garbage rotting indoors, in the form of a compost pile.

I used to “operate” two compost piles, each topping out perhaps a cubic yard in volume.  I’d start a new one every six months, and then use the old one, which provided fabulous fertilizer for my ~1000 square foot vegetable garden.  Didn’t cost a nickel, and made great use of what nature has given us.

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There is a lot of useful information here, most of it correct, and, IMO, this is an interesting subject, but:

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