Category: Sustainability

Here’s a portable holster, enabling the user nearly instantaneous access to his loaded handgun. As shown, this comes in especially handy in the car, mounted beneath the steering wheel. What this does principally is reduces the amount of time that …

New Product Enables You to Fire First, Think Later Read More »

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Obviously, I have no way of knowing if this actually happened, but let’s set that aside. Bezos’ viewpoint of the future seems strange: “Service workers performing tasks?” Regardless of how one defines “tasks,” they require less and less human participation …

Obama, Stewart, and Bezos Read More »

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I’m not sure what lesson we’re learning here in today’s America.  Clearly, most people are good, and act kindly and respectfully toward others; incidents of racial hate or violence associated with COVID restrictions are rare, though, since they’re sensation, they …

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Several theories could be advanced as to why the United States is the only nation in the developed world that doesn’t offer its citizens government-sponsored healthcare. By far the most obvious is that a population of healthy and happy people …

Desperate? Sick? That’s Because You’re Supposed To Be Read More »

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This from a reader: The founder of Dubai, Sheik Rashid, was asked about the future of his country, and he replied, “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land …

Different Flavors of “Rot” Read More »

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Plato then went on to write, “Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.” Since organized human civilization emerged on this planet, people have been commenting …

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In terms of personal character, Jimmy Carter may have been the very finest human being ever to occupy the White House. Note how different this humble, deferential statement on his faith is from the way today’s Republicans use fanatical Christianity …

Jimmy Carter’s Fine Character Read More »

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The first thing to acknowledge here is that China is not a free country, so of course, they can command anything they choose to be built.  Americans are free to get filthy rich, and are under no obligation, legally or …

China vs. the United States Read More »

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There is a lot to love about the United States, which is why when people in developing parts of the world are asked where they’d like to live, they name the U.S. far more frequently than any other nation on …

Corporatocracy Takes Its Toll Read More »

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