The meme hear sounds good; it almost rolls off the tongue. But it’s untrue. Equal rights means, to take an example, that white people no longer have the right to ban people of color from their country clubs and tony …
Category: Sustainability
Americans Don’t Want a Hateful Society
A friend took this pic during her morning walk in Santa Monica, CA. Yes, you’re more likely to see this in California, than, say, Kansas, but it’s a statement shared by the majority of Americans. After this race-baiting sociopath leaves …
Lawn Improvement
I hate to reprint memes that have egregious grammatical errors in them; here we have “less lawns” where it should be “fewer lawns,” because a lawn is a discrete object. Having said that, what a great point. There are few …
The United States Is Doing “Very Well?”
I just received an invitation to comment on the following: The United States is doing VERY WELL, thanks to President Trump’s STRONG leadership. We cannot trust the left-wing media to report the TRUTH, which is why President Trump is counting on …
Tagged with: 11+% unemployment, 22 million children living in poverty, 70000+ children locked in cages at our southern border, destruction of the postal system, environment being irreparably damaged, laughingstock of the planet, mass evictions/new homeless, president whose lies now exceed 21000, rampant racist violence, the world's most dismal failure in addressing pandemic
Evangelicals’ Version of Christianity
Let me take a stab. Keep in mind that Evangelicals are Christians in an extremely narrow and perverted sense of the word. These people’s behavior has nothing whatsoever to do with the life and teachings of Christ; rather, it’s defined …
Tagged with: indifference of others' suffering
What Does It Mean To Make America Great Again?
I’m certainly not the first to ask what precisely is meant by the phrase “make America great again.” If a typical Trump supporter were to answer that question honestly, he’d probably say things like white-dominated, Christian, heterosexual, militarily aggressive, deregulated, …
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Reversing the Effects of Trump
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 …
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 …
Tagged with: COVID-19 Infection Rate
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 …
Tagged with: Trump's Felonies
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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