For those who want to see a timeline of biblical and world history together, here’s The Amazing Bible Timeline with World History. I mention this subject infrequently, as I don’t want to disparage anyone’s religion, but I occasionally want to …
Category: Sustainability
Two Populations, Separated by an Ocean, Have Different Rates of Success Addressing COVID-19
What are we to infer from this graph? Given that it displays two vastly different outcomes, there must be at least one dramatic difference between the subject groups and the way they were treated over this period of time. Both …
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A Bit of Whimsy from 2GreenEnergy
Let’s take a break from the normal banter on environmentalism and the politics that tries so desperately to impede its progress, and turn to 2GreenEnergy and where it’s “headquartered,” which is in a rural part of Santa Barbara County, about …
Changes in Policing
Here’s a good piece of news: San Francisco police won’t respond to calls that don’t involve crime. Calls to 911 are sorted by the person taking the call. Crimes are met by police, armed with guns and handcuffs. Everything else: …
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Reporting on the Pandemic: A Cabal?
It comes as no surprise that many Americans still think the pandemic is a hoax, or at least the numbers are deliberately and grossly inflated so as to scare us and ruin our economy. A bilingual friend sent me a …
The Spectre of Socialism
We often hear otherwise intelligent people say, “Trump is the only thing standing between us and socialism.” What a strange remark that is. What would a Biden presidency be like? He’s a centrist Democrat like Obama, and there will be …
Tagged with: better educated young people, better health outcomes, better protection of personal liberties, degradation of water and air standards, educated people are harder to lie to and suppress, improved image of America on the world stage, improvement in environmental quality, more voter participation, runaway greenhouse gas emissions, stronger democracy
We Are All Connected
What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual. Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate …
U.S. Supreme Court: Pipeline Can Cross Appalachian Trail
Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia. Bernie Sanders notes: The Supreme …
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Why Trump Will Fail: Too Much Basic Human Goodness
Some guys never cry, but I’m not one of them. I would find it impossible to get through this minute-long video without tears welling up in my eyes. I especially love the guy with the bullhorn: “This is America.” This …
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Trump Addresses U.S. Cadets, Those Who “Will Not Lie, Cheat or Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do.”
Such a sad day. Is there any aspect of our moral lives that Trump hasn’t reduced to rubble? As a pacifist, I wish young people weren’t doing this with their lives, but I have to say that I feel very …
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