This is the reason that we should be confident that Trump will be indicted on at least one felony count. If we don’t, we’re telling all future presidents that there is no crime they can commit for which they’ll be …
Category: Sustainability
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Ouch! Watch Those Analogies!
Question: What are the two most obvious problems with the logic in the meme here? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The logic used by anti-vaxxers isn’t too strong.
Of All 50 States, Mississippi Has Most COVID-19 Deaths Per Capita
Does it comes as a shock that Mississippi leads the union in COVID-19 deaths per capita? In many ways, it’s the perfect storm: perennially last in healthcare overall, close to the bottom in education, ferociously anti-science, and second only to …
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Watch Out for Plant-Based Meats–Here’s Why
This is the first time I’ve come across the adjectival form of “Lucifer.” Usually it’s satanic, diabolical, or even Mephistophelian. In any case, this is about as idiotic as it gets. More on Rick Wiles here.
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What College Philosophy Professors Teach
Excellent. A few comments: You say you don’t teach liberal political values, but in a way you do. Not that there is anything wrong about this, but empathy and humility actually are liberal values. The tenets of moral philosophy, like …
Tagged with: build sustainable ecosystems, climate change is a Chinese hoax, dangerous or ineffective drugs as well as cleaning products are viable ways of treating COVID-19, Obama was born in Kenya, Reality has a liberal bias, successful species are far more cooperative with one another than they are competitive, trickle down economics is a valid theory
The Antivaccination Movement and Its Horrible Repercussions
The meme here came from a reader, but it’s content is completely untrue. Largely due to the antivaccination movement, the human population is suffering though a resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough), mumps, measles and perhaps smallpox. The Internet provides numerous …
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Scarcity
A reader, apparently a QAnon-style conspiracy theorist, sent me the meme here. Yes, there are people who think that the governments of the 206 sovereign nations are conspiring to kill a significant percentage of the world’s population. Overpopulation isn’t a …
COVID-19 Analogies
We’ve all seen dozens of memes featuring analogies about the pandemic, especially, the limit of our personal rights. Some are stronger than others. I suppose that once your mind is made up, you can invent any story you like to …
America, Land of Injustice
The bankruptcy judge in the case of Purdue Pharma is Robert Drain, who signed off on the settlement plan, which includes the bonuses shown at left. Why he’s allowing anything remotely resembling this is a complete mystery. Even worse, the …
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Trumpism Is Lethal
The graphic here is playing itself out all over the nation. Elsewhere around the United States, we have hot-spots in Trump-loving Florida and Texas, as well as the rest of the Deep South. Trumpism is killing many hundreds of people per …
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