Periodically I mention the extremely popular online vocabulary challenge A.Word.A.Day, written by American author and speaker Anu Garg. Today: The English language has lots of words. More than half a million by one count.
Category: Sustainability
Analyzing the Coronavirus
IMO, understanding the full impact and severity of the coronavirus is not an exact science. Here’s how I regard this, given the stats in the U.S. as shown here (as of 1 PM PST, April 10, 2020: Cases 492,995 Recovered …
“A Free Society Depends on a Vibrant Religious Life Among the People?”
This seems like a bizarre assertion, even from William Barr, a man with no more allegiance to the truth than his boss. Let’s look at the charts below and ask ourselves: Do the people of the Deep South (living in …
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Off-Topic, But Necessary to Keep It Light in Bad Times, Here’s “There Will Be COVID”
Those who remember the 2007 film “There Will Be Blood” will get a charge out of this parody, made by my extremely talented friend, actor, impressionist, artist and comedian Jim Meskimen. I’m guessing that he wrote this and tweaked it …
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Mississippi Governor Declares ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ During Coronavirus Pandemic
When the good people of Mississippi elected Republican Tate Reeves to govern their state in 2019, they did it, at least in part, based on his long history of ties to pro-Confederate groups. These are voters who look back with …
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Our Times Are Marked By Extremes
In an earlier post today, I asserted that we live in times of extreme emotion. Who hasn’t had extraordinary appreciation of kindness, sadness at apathy to people’s suffering, and anger at the profiteering and gross criminality we see in our …
Tagged with: Extremes
Interpreting the Constitution in These Horrible Times
Here’s a compilation of interviews with people coming out of a church service a couple of days ago in Ohio–one to which she had brought her little kids.
Trump Hands Major Victory to the Oil and Gas Industry, But Will It Survive in Court?
From the Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration on Tuesday weakened one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to combat climate change, releasing new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks that handed a victory to the oil and gas …
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Why the Media Covers Bad News
Here’s a cogent interview with a journalist who explores why there is so little good news in today’s media; everything’s bad today, and it will be even worse tomorrow. He notes that this is the precise opposite of the way …
Tagged with: poor care of our environment
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Rejects a State Lockdown for COVID-19: “Mississippi’s Never Gonna be China.”
“Mississippi’s never going to be China.” True. In China, children get good educations and compete effectively in the world economy. Right now, there are 362,000 Chinese students earning doctorate degrees. Meanwhile, Mississippi ranks 48th in education among the 50 states.
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