There are some extremely disturbing trends out there in the world, and the most visible of them are here in the United States. I just had a conversation with a guy who asked me, “Isn’t the implementation of renewable energy …
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Apparently, what Cardinal Mueller said at left is factual, and, for some perverse reason, it makes me laugh. This guy is so far out of step with the Catholic church and the changes it’s made over the last decade or …
It’s both surprising and disappointing to see our country’s greatest minds, like Mark Twain and Robert Frost, make comments like this about education. Would our children be better off illiterate? Unable to find Russia on a globe? Believing that the …
The message at left is that we live among people who believe that every U.S. citizen should be armed at all times. Every teacher, real estate agent, pastry chef, little old lady, and perhaps even our kids themselves, so often …
What Karl Marx said here has been repeated by many dozens of people over the years, notably George Carlin (see below).
At left is a post from “Real Texas Conservatives.” When I first came across it, I wasn’t going to dignify it with a response. But then it occurred to me to remind readers that, over the last 30 years, 78% …
At left we have a good example of sanity. What we have in the real world is lunacy. It’s true that selfishness is unnecessary. But it’s one of few things that human beings living in capitalist societies do well.
I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health. As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse …
We often hear meat-eaters say things like, “If beef isn’t good, why do the manufacturers of plant-based burgers try so hard to make their burgers taste like real meat?” There is no doubt that cow and pig meat tastes and …
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Moronocracy
Quite possibly the single most offensive part of the Trump presidency is that the White House has gone to a great deal of effort to find the very most incompetent people to fill the government’s most important positions. We have …
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