When I met Dr. Steven Chu, then U.S. Secretary of Energy, at a conference a few years ago in Santa Barbara, someone standing near us asked him why he took the position. “The President of the United States asked me …
Category: Renewables – Politics
In All Fairness To Trump Supporters
The content of the meme here isn’t true. First of all, where does “30%” come from? Now, it could derive from the fact that 62% of Trump supporters, which now total in the low 40s, say they would support Trump …
Tagged with: 63% of Trump supporters say they would support Trump no matter what he does, destroying the environment for profit, i.e., punishing liberals, regardless of any facts that are turned up in this or future investigations, tax cuts for billionaires, Trump is a liar, trump supporters believe that he's telling the truth, white supremacy
Expressing One’s Distaste for Trump
Tom Steyer writes, “Donald Trump is a failed businessman who lost over $1 billion while leaving behind a trail of bankruptcies and broken promises. Get one of Tom’s new bumper stickers for your car, laptop, or bike to let everyone …
More on Gun Violence Prevention
What a coincidence. Shortly after I wrote this post: U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Speaks on Gun Violence Prevention, I ran across this quote from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who was around when I was a boy. …
America At a Pivot Point
OMG, this meme carries the precise discussion my wife and I had over breakfast this morning: Craig: It’s raining (feces) down on Trump right now. The end of all this insanity has to be very, very close. Becky: It’s been …
Tagged with: love of country
Just When We Think It Can’t Get Any Worse
From ABC News: President Donald Trump has been ordered by a New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state …
Tagged with: Trump brazen criminal
How Trump Lost Control
History will regard the shocking results of the 2019 (off-year) elections in which Republicans lost control of states that had been theirs for decades as a watershed event. As we sit in wonder as to what happened, let’s consider this: …
2019 Election Night and the Winds of Change
For those wanting a smile, here’s a Twitter exchange begun by Ann Coulter that might do the trick. On a serious note, the fact that traditional fire-engine-red states are turning against the Republican Party at such a wonderfully alarming rate …
Getting Trump Gone: How Far Need We Go?
Readers understand that I desperately want to see Trump gone, but if they want to see real passion here, they need to meet my wife. Becky’s having such a tough time with the day-to-day news about the climate denial, the …
Tagged with: climate denial
Evaluating Social Democracy
A reader notes: There is a huge conceptual misunderstanding in the world of politics and political philosophy. We keep hearing about the left and the right, which delivers a completely incorrect concept of reality. It is not left and right …
