Not only is vegetable gardening good for the environment, it’s an extremely rewarding experience, something in which one tends to take great pride in one’s accomplishments; I certainly did. Yet my gardens didn’t resemble this one….in the slightest.
Category: Sustainability
What If My Conspiracy Theory Friend Is Right?
We all like to think that we’re objective and rational in our thinking, and that, if we were presented with sufficient evidence, we’d change even our most entrenched beliefs and admit that we’d been buffaloed. We like to think that …
Biden To Be Removed “One Way or the Other”–What This Means
Our new world, one that features mass adoption of conspiracy theories, forces us to consider many things for the first time. Perhaps the single most important of these is law enforcement in a society in which tens of millions of …
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Four Grammar Rules You Don’t Need Anymore
Here’s a cool piece for those of us who concern ourselves with English grammar, along with my comments, for what they’re worth: 1. Don’t end sentences with prepositions. This was never really a rule in the first place; the rule …
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Interpreting the Ten Commandments
Here, IMO, is one of the greatest pieces of thinking ever performed by a member of our species. Yet I suppose all she’s really saying is that she’s an atheist; an omniscient and omnipotent being doesn’t “miss an opportunity.”
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Live Christmas Trees
Insofar as our world needs more trees, it would be good if those celebrating Christmas bought live trees and planted them after the holidays. It’s hard to overstate the satisfaction to be had in watching them grow. Out here in …
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Life in America Isn’t What It Used To Be
It’s painful living in America right now. In a conversation I had with my father about 30 years ago, I said that I believed we are experiencing the end of the American Empire–not that this was an original idea. I …
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Karma for Megachurch Pastor
From this: A California Pastor has died of COVID-19, five weeks after his megachurch reopened in defiance of the state’s ban on indoor religious services. Bob Bryant, a 58-year-old associate pastor at the Water of Life Community Church in San …
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Environmental Responsibility Post Trump
A great deal of the environmental damage Trump has inflicted on this planet will be fairly easy to reverse once he’s out of office. Of the 104 regulations that formerly protected our skies and waterways from toxic pollution, 80 of …
Putting the Confederate Legacy Into Context
A reader sent me the meme here, and asked (implicitly) for my comments. It’s hard to know where to begin. Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United States, and led a force that would have promulgated slavery, an …
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