The Latin “De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum” translates into English as “Of the dead, let nothing but good be said,” and it’s a generally recognized social protocol. But not so much when incendiary right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh passed …
Category: Sustainability
Kindness Abounds, But Not Everywhere
Indeed, there is extreme polarization in the United States right now when it comes to all things political, yet we’re fortunate that the “Kindness Movement” is a significant part of the American ethos. Of course, not everyone gets this, and …
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What Were We Thinking?
The wheel was invented about 5500 years ago, and travel baggage is several centuries old, so we ponder: why did it take so long for someone to invent wheeled luggage? At left is another idea that should have come along …
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Understanding Free Speech
A conservative reader sent me the meme here, to which I responded: I think what you’re missing here is that there is a difference between “conservative” opinions and language that is intended to incite sedition and violence, and fan the …
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Remembering 9/11
I’m always sad to see memes like this. No one who was over four years old in 2001 will ever forget 9/11, and thus it’s clear that remembering the tragedy isn’t what this is about at all; it’s simply an …
City Commissioner’s Children Threatened
Tweets from Al Schmidt, City Commissioner, responsible for elections and voter registration in Philadelphia: “@LeaderMcConnell. The former POTUS incited supporters to threaten to kill my children and put their “heads on spikes” because we counted votes cast by eligible voters. …
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Non-Violence
The annual celebration of Earth Day in Santa Barbara is held in a large, beautiful park, with perhaps 100 booths featuring ideas that promote a better planet. Many concern themselves directly with cleantech: water savings, electrical efficiency, EVs, renewable energy …
Sorry To Say, We May Never See the Trump Administration’s Healthcare Plans
It’s starting to look like the United States will never get to see the Trump administration’s healthcare plans, not a single one of the many, so as to evaluate their merits in detail vis-à-vis Obamacare. Damn! And we were soooo …
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Ocean Plastic Pollution
One of my snide and ignorant readers sent me the meme here, to which I respond: Yes. The world is reducing plastic pollution as fast as possible, because every decent person on Earth finds what we’ve done to our oceans …
Tagged with: 4 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans., banning single use items, developing plastic that biodegrades at the rate appropriate to what it contains, every decent on Earth finds what we've done to our oceans to be unconscionable, The world is reducing plastic pollution as fast as possible
World Radio
If you think Google Earth is amazing (and it is) here’s the radio equivalent. Each white dot is a licensed radio station, this app lists every single one on the planet. Click wherever you want, and listen to what they’re …
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