Here’s a thought (at left) that ought to make you smile. Yes, (Fox News anchor) Tucker Carlson, that’s the plan indeed. Let’s see…..America gets: • A new tax code, reversing huge cuts for the super-rich that came at the expense …
Category: Sustainability
Mississippi’s High COVID-19 Infection Rate
It seems to me that IR = k(PD) / E, or, in English, a state’s COVID-19 infection rate is positively correlated to its population density, and inversely correlated to its population’s education level. Mississippi’s problem with COVID-19 is that, although …
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Trump’s Felonies Happen with Complete Impunity
My wife made this prediction when the U.S. Senate failed to convict and remove Trump after he was impeached: “Now that he’s seen that he can commit major felonies in broad daylight with no repercussions–crimes that would have resulted in …
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Eliminating Money from Politics: What Buying Elections Really Costs Us
There are dozens of posts here on the imperative to eliminate money from politics, many of which center around the overturning of the catastrophic U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” which enables corporations to spend limitless amounts to influence our …
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Saving the National Environmental Protection Act
For you petition-signers, here’s a good one that just received my John Hancock. I took the text below from an email that I can no longer find, and thus can’t cite.
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Caring About the Well-Being of Others
Right. This is something you either understand instinctively, or it’s a concept you’re incapable of grasping. I’m reminded of a time I met the wife of an old friend. Over dinner, she asked what I did, and I told her …
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News from the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Here’s a piece from an 1918 edition of Alaska’s “Douglas Island News.” All of this is of great relevance today, but worthy of special note are: Do not disregard the advice of a specialist, just because you don’t understand (medicine). …
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The 2020s Will See Unprecedented Disruption
Readers wishing to stretch their minds would do very well to listen to this podcast, featuring thought leader, entrepreneur, educator, author, executive, consultant and business architect Tony Seba. Tony predicts that the 2020s will be the most disruptive decade in …
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Focusing on Contraception
Five years ago, I wrote this piece on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and an interview I had seen in which Melinda mused: “It’s weird. When I visit them, all I want to talk about is vaccines; all they …
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What Should We Be Teaching in Our Schools?
Let’s add onto that: How to live with a government being taken over by a criminal sociopath, and a society so fixated on gratifying its own selfish desires that it’s become the only one on Earth to have allowed a …
