Like a lot of people, I stand in awe of extremely talented people, be they athletes, musicians, or astrophysicists.
Category: Renewables – Politics
Quo Vadis, American Democracy?
Here’s a meme that reminds us all of the unpredictable nature of life, or, better, how the future always looks like the past, until it looks like something completely different.
Tagged with: American democracy
Scott Pruitt May Be Roundly Reviled, But He’s Really Had a TERRIFIC Year
If I asked you to name the very best year of your life thus far, you’d probably ask for clarification: Most joyful? Most productive? Most rewarding? You may end up talking about a graduation, your first love, the birth of your …
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No Progress Without Campaign Finance Reform
Anita Heuss writes: I know we are all angry about guns today. Unfortunately I think something else needs to be said (displayed at left).
Tagged with: environmental stewardship
Pruitt Is Right To Protect Himself from Bodily Attack
From Time Magazine: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has broken months of silence about his frequent premium-class flights at taxpayer expense, saying he needs to fly first class because of unpleasant interactions with other travelers. Pruitt told the New …
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Democracy Has Taken a Beating, But Americans Are Not Going Gently Into That Good Night
We often encounter suggestions that the will of the American people is constantly frustrated–and there’s a great deal of evidence to support that, given issues like 94% of voters favor stricter background checks for prospective gun owners and 70% oppose arctic oil …
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Worried about the Rise of Fascism in America? Relax
Most Americans are horrified about the direction their country has taken, and, in particular, how closely this trajectory resembles the onset of fascism, with its leader’s vehemently discrediting the media, delegitimizing government institutions, and brazen lying, so loudly and so …
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Tagged with: climate change is a hoax
There Are No More Apolitical Americans
Along with all the damage it’s wrought, the Trump phenomenon has had a very positive effect on this country: it’s brought essentially all Americans out of the political closet. At this point, virtually everyone here believes one of three things …
The U.S. Department of Energy – Hard At Work
Here’s a video that’s illustrative of a couple of important operating principles in the U.S. government:
Note on Immigration Reform
Here’s an astute and very fair note in response to my recent post The Solar Industry Takes a Hit, But It’s Not Alone from commenter “Wayne”: As a painter in Southern California for almost 40 years, I have witnessed an overwhelming invasion …
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