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The development explained at left may sound noteworthy, and I don’t discourage these people or anyone from doing whatever they can to slow the rate of environmental degradation. And yes, keeping plastic out of our waste-streams is a great cause.
But let’s look at this for a second.
Who, and at what expense, both financially and environmentally, is going to round up all these avocado pits and process them into utensils, then absorb the costs of product marketing and distribution? How viable will this enterprise be, especially at very low volume, compared to the $43 billion plastic industry?
I’m reminded of a would-be client, “Fertile Grounds,” who met me a few years ago and asked for my help. Their idea was to collect coffee grounds from Starbucks’ and process them into organic fertilizer. I asked how they planned to collect the coffee grounds, and they explained that they would have drivers of small truck with routes around the nation’s cities, who would drop off this feedstock to processing plants that would dry (over heat–where does the heat energy come from?), bag it, then sell it into the market of hardware stores and large home improvement centers.
Of the two, which idea is more inane? Hard to know.
I told the “Fertile Grounds” folks that I loved their name, but advised them to keep their money in their pockets and look for another business concept. I didn’t use the word “inane” at all in our conversation. That’s how to win friends and influence people. I should have written the book.
As the November election moves closer, it will be interesting to see how many households in this largely Republican part of rural California distinguish themselves as Trump supporters, perhaps by displaying the flag at the left.
I’m going to guess that folks around here will be more reserved than they were in 2016 and 2020, simply because of the ever-increasingly extreme nature of Trump’s behavior: demented rants, bald-faced lies, and outrageous antics at his criminal trials.
My wife thinks I’m wrong. We’ll see.
From this:
Donald Trump is by no means the same man he was even four years ago, a psychologist said as he also claims the former president’s “demented” speech is an indication of his deterioration.
I have bad news: Trump’s base doesn’t predicate its support for the former president on his capacity to make sense or tell the truth. If it were as simple as that, you wouldn’t be reading a post on the viability of Trump’s candidacy for president just six months from the coming election; the Republicans would be nominating some garden-variety conservative, perhaps from the Bush family.
What Gene Roddenberry says here is probably correct, but, sadly, our species seems to be headed in the opposite direction. “Differences in ideas and attitudes” are increasingly perceived as alien, and thus, threatening.
The most obvious real-world example today, of course, is the war in the Middle East, but let’s not forget about the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. since the MAGA Trumpers came along about 10 years ago.
To give credit where it is due, Trump had some pretty impressive people around him for short periods of time during his tenure in office. But famously, they left, one by one, largely due to their loyalty to their country rather than to Trump himself.
I’m not sure how much information comes out on Truth Social that Trump supporters were unaware of.
Users already know that Biden has ruined the country with the economy in freefall, the stock market is in ruins, runaway inflation, rising crime rates, and open borders. They know that Trump has been the victim of nationwide witch-hunts, that the justice system has been weaponized against him, that the grand juries that brought four indictments including 88 felony charges were all constituted by the radical left, and that Trump has never done anything wrong.
Also, even if he has committed crimes, he deserves complete immunity from prosecution, because …., well because no one is above the law, except for the most powerful person in the nation.
All this makes perfect sense, and if you think otherwise, you hate America.
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These folks ask: Curious about the decline in Christianity and church attendance? Support your congregation with learnings from this free 24-page study, including 10 practical ways to address these challenges in your community.
Of course, I have no idea what these “10 practical ways to address these challenges in your community” may be. Here are mine:
Take the very best of what Christ taught, e.g., the Beatitudes, and make it the core of the Christian message. Get rid of everything else. No threats of burning in hell. Nothing but kindness and compassion.
We don’t have access to the precise discussion between Kristi Noem and the editor she hired to prepare the South Dakota governor’s new book for publication. Yet it’s hard to imagine this happening too differently from the following:
Editor: Apparently, you shot a dog you couldn’t train for a certain specific purpose, instead of finding it a new home.
Noem: Correct.
Editor: To make such an entry in your book is to say that you’re not ashamed, perhaps even proud, of what you did.
Noem: Again, correct.
Editor: But many readers are going to infer that you’re a cold and empty human being, with no real compassion for other living beings. Are you sure you want to project yourself like that?
Noem: Absolutely. I suppose that, if this were some woke, sissy state, you’d have a point. But this is South Dakota, a state that went for Trump by a margin of almost two to one. These people have all the sentimentality of a freshly-sharpened chain saw.
Editor: But you’re a member of the Republican party, and the choices you make reflect on the entire GOP.
Noem: You apparently haven’t noticed that this is precisely what the party stands for at this point. We ban books, revoke women’s rights, align ourselves with world dictators, make groundless claims about a stolen election, make rich people richer and poor people poorer, and do everything possible to promote the consumption of fossil fuels. Our voters adore us.
Editor: Fair point.
“Biden has weaponized the Justice Department against Trump” is a Fox News talking point that most Republicans accept without actually thinking about it.
Here, Robert Reich points out how glaringly incorrect it is.
