Note the difference in incarceration between Sweden and the U.S. Possible underlying causes include: Where the United States was constructed on the backs of slaves, Sweden’s involvement with slavery was both short-lived and shallow. They don’t have a large and …
Category: Sustainability
Voter Suppression Becomes Law, Though Some Supreme Court Justices Aren’t Having It
From this: Justice Elena Kagan ripped her conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court on Thursday in a blistering 41-page dissent, accusing them of ignoring the legislative intent of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as well as the high court’s own precedents.
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Bezos, Musk, Branson Race To Get To Mars While the Planet’s On Fire, Resented By Many
As the planet’s fragile ecosystems continue to collapse at an ever quickening pace, our society, rightly I believe, has growing contempt for those whose net worth is north of $100 billion, and who are racing one another to get to …
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Sometimes You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too
The basic content of the meme here is true, and I’m sure it’s a sentiment most of us share. But when we think about it for a moment, it’s clear that this is not “either/or.” The first two of the equations …
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How We Vote, and Why
This, of course, is a reference to those who vote against their own interests because they’re too stupid to understand what those interests are, and which candidate will best serve them. Yet voting against one’s own interests is not necessarily …
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Recognizing Our Common Humanity
U.S. Supreme Justice Thurgood Marshall left us with this: In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. Perhaps it’s this failure to “recognize the humanity of our fellow beings” that lies at the core …
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Trump In Legal Jeopardy
Regarding the indictment against the Trump Organization and its CFO, a reader notes: It’s a corporation. Anyway, it’s a flimsy charge. Everyone does this kind of thing. They need better charges. As much as I want to see the justice …
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The Intractable Issue with Plastic Waste
The civilization is doing a terrible job with respect to plastic waste. Some people remain unaware of the issue, and most of the people who understand it are unwilling to alter their lifestyles accordingly. Compounding the problem is that the …
Despite the Lunacy of the Extreme Right, the Vaccine Is Bringing the Pandemic Under Control
I happen to be closely connected to one of our nation’s top epidemiologists, and I can assure readers that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks by several orders of magnitude. What Johnson is doing here is among the …
Trump’s Family and Lackeys Want To Pretend They Had No Role in His Administration
Re: the message at left, you don’t have to tell me that, pal. These are all criminals who need to be held accountable for what they did over the past four years, in terms of flouting dozens of different laws, …
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