A reader notes: There was a movie called “Soylent Green” in the 1970s where the food was made out of people. I won’t be eating any of that fake meat. First of all, I wouldn’t call it “fake.” Plant-based meat …
Category: Sustainability
Trump: Sedition, Treason, and Insurrection
That’s the way it look to me, as well. But then again I’m not a Harvard Law Professor. From his Wikipedia page: Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American legal scholar who is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor …
Black Lives Matter
The little girl here makes an important point. Obviously all lives matter, but black lives didn’t matter for 350 years, and it’s time to turn that around. That some people find this controversial is sickening. When George Floyd was murdered, …
Gun Deaths: America’s Great Plague
A great deal of what progressives believe vis-a-vis their conservative counterparts. Do immigrants take away American jobs? Does the death penalty deter crime? Is late-term abortion “murder?” Certain other items, however, are far more cut and dried. When we look …
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Georgia Voter Suppression Laws
At left is a reference to the new voter suppression laws in Georgia making it a crime to bring water for people standing in line waiting to vote. Gotta love this guy. Here’s a discussion I’m having with a couple …
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Showing Mercy
Catching and releasing spiders is a policy that, IMO, all decent people have in common. The author here, Rudy Francisco, puts it beautifully.
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Norway Cautions Its Student To Avoid U.S. Healthcare
This is from a year ago, at the start of the pandemic, but it still cuts like a knife. How disgusting it is that the most prosperous nation in human history offers its citizens–those, that is, who can afford it–second- …
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Racism in America
I’m afraid I have some bad news for Mr. Faulkner. Racism is proportional to ignorance, and we have a bumper crop of the latter. We don’t just dabble in ignorance, we bathe in it.
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We All Find It Hard to Admit that We’ve Been Bamboozled
It’s unclear if the late astronomer Carl Sagan was referring to any specific event in history in his famous quote here. It’s certainly one of the factors that keeps Trumpism in place. Clearly, there are many people who, if they …
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Money in Politics
As a society, Americans don’t seem to be too concerned about (or even aware of) the corruption that big money is injecting into our law-making on a daily basis; otherwise, we wouldn’t have the U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” …
