It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there are many phases in the U.S. Constitution that are being badly misinterpreted by today’s Supreme Court, but, as shown at left, there couldn’t possibly be a more egregious instance than what’s going …
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Sarah Palin and Stupidity
Sarah Palin’s problem is that she was stupid when stupid wasn’t cool. Eight years after her candidacy for vice president, she would have fit right in.
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Human Nature and the Practice of Killing Cows Are Mutually Inconsistent
As you watch the pure love and serenity in this wonderful video, remind yourself that McDonald’s alone kills almost one million cows per year, to produce 75 hamburgers per second.
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A Lesson in Sustainability
Translates as: One day, when you are not, you will be that which you made. Reminds me of the saying (roughly), The man who plants a tree knowing that he’ll never sit in its shade is beginning to understand what …
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Committed to a Healthy Earth
We live in a world in which greed and selfishness cause great suffering. Yet in that very same world, good, fiercely dedicated people strive on a daily basis to undo some of the damage. This is such a story.
The “Stupid People’s President”
Two quick comments: Sure, supporting Trump requires stupidity, but don’t forget about meanness. To like Trump means that you hate the same people as he does: people of color (especially if they’re Muslims or immigrants), as well as environmentalists, abortion-rights …
Cooperation
The text here translates as “The next big evolutionary jump will be humankind’s discovery that cooperation is better than competition.” This is an increasingly important concept as planetary resources become scarcer, and a business-as-usual approach means the slow but certain …
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A Powerful Voice for the Freedom of Ideas
Stephen King: If Penguin Random House gets its way, it will soon own Simon & Schuster—leaving only four major publishers in an industry that once had dozens. In a country built on free press, where Common Sense helped launch the Revolutionary War …
Jeff Sparrow from the Guardian: Nuclear War No Longer Seems To Scare Us as Much as it Used To – Have We Become Accustomed to the Unthinkable?
This piece in the Guardian is a wonderful short essay on the topic. I speculate the following: • That China is effectively sinking the U.S. with economics. • Russia has hurt us very badly installing Donald Trump as president. • …
Trump’s Legacy of Tremendous Harm
The death of the man who attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati reminds us that, by the time Trump is removed from our lives, and his active influence finally dissipates into virtually nothing, the amount of damage he will have …
