We need to confront the fact that many Americans are so stupid and selfish that corralling the pandemic and its variants may take many years, if it’s possible at all. The shot below features more than 385,000 largely unmasked young …
Category: Sustainability
Yes, America Is Struggling with Its Anti-Vaxxers
It’s no secret that the United States is struggling with its anti-vaxxers. I would like to say that they’re actually delightful people, intelligent and compassionate, and that it’s a shame they’re so badly misinformed. But I can’t. Most of them …
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Hungary Tough on Immigration
A friend who watches Fox News writes: (Tucker) Carlson had an interesting interview with the prime minister of Hungary last night. They have solved the immigration problem with closed borders. I do not think that makes them a despicable group …
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What’s “Normality,” And When Will We Have It?
We often hear discussion on normality. When will we have it? Will things ever be the same? If not, is that necessarily a bad thing? Cynics see what’s happening in the U.S. vis-à-vis the loud minority of anti-vaxxers and infer …
Describing Trump
You’re confusing stupidity with manslaughter. He didn’t mean we’d have fewer cases per se, but fewer known cases. He wanted to improve his image by sending hundreds of thousands of Americans to agonizing deaths. Ranks in the top ten worst …
COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Meme at left from a reader. My response: There are a couple of things I find interesting here: A) How the 1.01 million U.S. doctors and 2.98 million nurses all conspired, maintaining absolute secrecy, with the U.S. federal, state, and …
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Path To a Sustainable Earth: Less Consumption
Some people say that nonstop growth in consumption lies at the root of a healthy civilization. If this were a planet of infinite size with resources that could never be depleted, there might be some merit to this claim. As …
Moderates and Extremists
My wife and I were discussing my recent post: Eisenhower on War the other day, and she asked, “Eisenhower was a Republican. Did he really say that? It seems so progressive.” I explained that the platform of the Republican Party …
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Shouldn’t We Be Teaching….?
This sounds good, until you realize that we live in a world with white supremacists, COVID disinformation spreaders, climate deniers, war mongers, insurrectionists, oil company lobbyists, and a very long list of others whose doctrines must be refuted.
Eisenhower on War
There were a few short periods of time in history when it appeared that humankind might avoid the fate of never-ending war. The years that followed both the world wars of the 20th Century are probably good examples. At this …
