There are no good arguments for the proliferation of guns in the United States (see chart below), but some are worse than others. The reader who sent me this seems to think that other countries don’t attack us because of …
Category: Sustainability
Pete Buttigieg Carves Up Attacking Interviewer–Yet One More Time
I find it amusing that Fox News and the other ultra-right wing “news” sources still interview Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and throw “gotcha” questions at him. There is no faster or more effective way to look like an idiot than …
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Humankind Needs To Share the Planet with Nature–And Vice Versa
Each year we learn more about the horrific effects that human activity is having on the natural world: over-fishing, encroaching on habitats, etc. Of course, there are examples of the reverse, i.e., the natural world encroaching’s on us. Here’s a …
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Kids, Screen-Time, and Sustainability
It’s intuitively obvious that kids who spend huge amounts of time on social media become physically unfit, introverted and anti-social, and develop tendencies towards bullying. This isn’t empirically proven, at least to the best of my knowledge, but it’s hard …
Tagged with: lack of empathy for others works directly against the development of real solutions, MagTrax, problems that our civilization face will be successfully resolved to the degree that its participants see themselves as part of a group with a common goal (preferably the entirety of humankind)
Owning the Libs
A mentally ill reader sent me this. It’s true that people of reason and compassion find this hard to look at. Scarcely a day goes by without a major shooting somewhere in the U.S. Sometimes we lose random grocery store …
How We Choose Our Leaders
At left we see an interesting thought. We all have images of packs of wild animals and their leaders. We remember Mufasa from Disney’s “The Lion King.” Wise, brave, selfless, and honest. Of course, we have no way of verifying …
Tagged with: shameless conman Donald Trump
NBC News: “McConnell warns corporate America to ‘stay out of politics’ — but says donations are OK”
I’m fairly certain corporate CEOs would not take on the entirety of the Republican Party on some minor political issue. Overt voter suppression, however, isn’t minor; it’s an obscenity to American democracy, and every self-respecting U.S. citizen–at any level in …
Tagged with: Overt voter suppression
Confucius Could Have Been Referring to 21st Century American Society
I cannot verify that Confucius actually said this, but who cares? It’s wonderfully descriptive of the United States today. We live in a society in which almost everything of consequence happens because rich people profit from it. Perhaps this is …
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White Nationalist Stephen Miller: Gone
I look forward to waking up every day knowing that this piece of human vermin no longer has any relevance in the U.S. government. Don’t you? For four long years, this nation was on a tear to find and empower …
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Whence Comes Happiness?
A story: A school teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were then given 5 …
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