Category: Sustainability

Am I the only one who has no clue what the rancor with Jill Biden’s PhD is about?  We had a science teacher in high school whose doctorate (I’m guessing) wasn’t in medicine.  He was Dr. Katman.  Had any of …

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This fellow expresses what most Americans feel. Moreover, it’s what guides entire societies in Europe and Scandinavia.  Those folks don’t want to live among the homeless, the hungry, not to mention people who can’t afford an education and those dying …

In Many Parts of the World, Public Sector Services Drive Happiness Read More »

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The reader I mentioned the other day, Tom, says in response to my post outlining the criminal and otherwise despicable acts Trump has performed during his years in office, “I would still be interested in what single item stands out …

Trump’s Acts of Damage To Our Nation May Actually Be a Boon in the Long Term Read More »

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One of our reading books in second grade featured a drama about a little boy, our age, and the ups and downs he was experiencing in his young life.  At one point, he couldn’t go the circus with his grandfather …

Court Puts Spear Through Trump’s Arctic Drilling Plans Read More »

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From this piece: With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to …

Trump Sabotaging Environment As He Leaves Office Read More »

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All the talk about the Republican-leaning states’ seceding from the United States gets one thinking: Some say that Lincoln should have simply let the Confederate States of America leave the union, allowing them to wither and die, as the CSA …

Red States Talk of Seceding from the United States Read More »

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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.

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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 …

What If My Conspiracy Theory Friend Is Right? Read More »

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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 …

Biden To Be Removed “One Way or the Other”–What This Means Read More »

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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 …

Four Grammar Rules You Don’t Need Anymore Read More »

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