America was blessed to have one of the best human beings the world has ever produced as its president in the late 1970s. Carter’s aspirations for his country, shown here, may never be achieved, but it won’t be because he …
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Alex Jones Found Liable for Damages in Defamation Cases
Alex Jones, who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a “giant hoax,” was found liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the shooting. A reader, apparently someone from abroad, asks: I don’t understand why he …
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Fear as Motivation
About 75 years ago Herman Herring gave a testimony in the Nuremberg court, he was asked: “How did you force the German people to accept all this?” He replied: “It was easy, it has nothing to do with Nazism, it is related to …
Loving One’s Enemy
It’s true that most progressives don’t want to “come together” with garden-variety Trump supporters. We reject the hate, the racism, the attack on democracy, the war mongering, the cruelty, and the further enrichment of the super-wealthy at the expense of …
Trump National Security Advisor Has Twisted Views on Religion–What a Surprise
Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, suggested that the United States should have just one religion. Said Flynn: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one …
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From the Business Insider: “Jeff Bezos Predicts that People Will One Day Be Born in Space and Will ‘Visit Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone National Park'”
This isn’t impossible by any means, but it sure doesn’t seem likely. Think of all the trends that need to be reversed before something like that could come to pass. Let’s start with climate change and its ramifications. Suppose we’re …
Tagged with: climate change and its ramifications, food and potable water shortages become common, insect-carried disease spreads uncontrollably due to lengthening growing seasons, large masses of arable land become deserts, more methane is released from melting permafrost, ocean acidification proceeds to kill all aquatic animals except jellyfish, the rise of sea-levels continues to accelerate primarily due to ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, we're unable to curtail emissions because the oil companies ultimately prove unstoppable
Trump Supporters Dying in Significant Numbers
Obviously, I don’t wish this kind of harm on anyone, and it would be best if these idiots would simply accept the science. Having said that, 800 deaths per day means about 300,000 per year. That’s a significant loss of …
Examining Humankind’s Effect on the Natural Environment
If taking up more space were the only negative influence that humankind was having on the planet, we’d probably be OK. There are ~25 billion square miles of land on Earth; that’s 3 square miles (1920 acres) for every man, …
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Too Many Americans Have Disdain for Education
To the author of this meme, I say wow. I’m amazed at how many Americans believe school is essentially about enforcing conformation in our thoughts and in our actions. What’s the downside of understanding math and science? Of reading the …
Establishing a Value for a College Education
When I was working on my MA in philosophy (at my father’s expense), his friends used to kid him, “Hey, Craig. What’s the job market looking like for professional philosophers?” Seriously, two points: It’s both annoying and amazing that people …
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