I used to play softball with a guy who litigated large-scale torts, like airplane crashes due to negligence. At a party one night, I suggested that jury awards were way out of proportion, and that this was driving up costs …
Category: Sustainability
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Environmental Toxicity and Flooding
Question: What do these elements have in common: Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, zinc. Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: In a new report released today, A Toxic Relationship: Extreme Coastal Flooding & Superfund …
Journalists and “Moral Clarity”
Here’s an article that begins: Objectivity in journalism has come to mean presenting both sides of an argument from a position of neutrality. But not every argument has two sides: some have more, and some statements should not be the …
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Vindman’s Honesty Ended His Career, But He’s OK with That
There really are going to be quite a few heroes made before we get Trump behind us. The ironic part is that they’ve come places that progressives never could have possibly imagined: ExxonMobil, the FBI, and a slew of admirals …
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In Many Ways, It’s Good Versus Evil
As I’ve mentioned, my mom is a life-long conservative Republican, and now in her elder years, unfortunately, a Fox News devotee. Nonetheless, we have extremely civil and mutually respectful discussions on politics. One of her observations of me, is that, …
Federal Troops Leave, Portland Turns Peaceful
Well, that’s an interesting coincidence. No incitement to violence reduces the level of violence to zero. As they say in song, who woulda thunk it?
Please Agitate Here
It’s hard to think of a single person in history who made a marked improvement in the lives of the common person who did so without irritating the living bejeesus out of the people in power at the time. From …
What Actually Are Our Rights?
The Center for the Study of Liberty is a group whose ostensible purpose is fostering civil discussions on the subject of liberty and human rights. It appears to be just an advocacy group for the no-mask, selfish Republicans who want …
Perhaps an Understatement
Which is the greater understatement: the photo at left, or the statement, “An unpopular and egomaniacal leader suggesting that the coming election be indefinitely postponed represents a threat to American democracy?”
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When the United States Ceased To Be a Nation of the Law
From this article: Donald Trump first attempted to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September 2017, a move that would’ve stripped its beneficiaries of work permits and subjected them to deportation. But his administration continually cut corners, …
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