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To the author of the meme here:
“Either” refers to two choices; “any” refers to three or more.
More importantly, it’s amazing how shamelessly the ultra-right wing exaggerates. The left side of the Democratic party would like to see the United States look like social democracies in places like Scandinavia. Having government programs that benefit the common person, e.g., Social Security, public schools, emergency relief, libraries, environmental responsibility, etc., does not equate to Stalinism.
Some of my old prep school chums from the Class of 1973 convene via Zoom approximately every six weeks for a 90-minute discussion of current events, science, and anything else that sounds interesting.
Our professions range from medicine, law, finance, and business management. All from highly ranked colleges. Over 50% hold doctorate degrees.
Here’s something I find fascinating about the group: it includes one right-wing conservative. I don’t mean a Reaganite; I mean a Trump supporter. This guy is incapable of any thought that doesn’t come directly from Nexsmax.
It’s almost eerie how closely he toes the line of the far-right. Yesterday he echoed the Newsmax talking point and told the group that all Muslims holding public office are “very dangerous” and should be removed.
Now, the rest of us are sitting there, dumbfounded at this idea, unwilling wasting our breath on this racist and utterly preposterous concept.
All this raises the question: How are our political viewpoints formed? How much of this is genetics? Epigenetics? Early childhood experiences? How do you take a boy from among the best environments and turn him into someone who struggles to understand the most basic principles on which our country was founded?
The people at clean energy start-up Wind Harvest have developed and tested prototype of a vertical axis wind turbine that they claim can be installed close to the ground and used to supplement the energy generated by the traditional huge machines.
I have no doubt that this is possible, but I have serious concerns about its economic viability. As a colleague of mine likes to say, “If you don’t care what you’re paying for electricity, I’ll get you all the renewable energy you could every want.”
Economists use the term “externality” to mean an unpriced cost or benefit imposed on an uninvolved third party as a result of an economic activity.
Fossil fuel companies sell us energy in the form of chemicals that when combusted provide both a) useful energy and b) various kinds of pollution. We pay for the energy, but the long-term environmental damage caused by the pollution is unpriced, as no one is required to remove it.
Burning coal is the most damaging form of energy generation, with its greenhouse gas emissions, its heavy metals like cadmium, selenium, mercury, and arsenic, and its wide array of radioactive isotopes.
The fossil fuels industry does incur a sizeable cost, however; it’s the huge stack of cash they pay lobbyists to essentially bribe the U.S. congress into refraining from regulating the poisons that go into our atmosphere.
As I’ve said many dozens of times, “We either solve the energy problem for India and China, or we all perish.”
The ultra-right Federalist Papers represents the results of the 2026 midterms as a loss of good against evil.
But how exactly, would our children have benefited from an extension of our country’s tax breaks for billionaires, its destruction of our educational system, the devastation of our environment, and our wanton cruelty to others?
The black goblins at the left of the illustration seem to be those liberal values, but are we really that stupid?
I subscribe to a social media feed called “I Love Old Homes” because I have an appreciation for the history of architecture, especially that which was built in what is now the United States between the late 17th Century and the 1930s. At the risk of coming off as weird, I try to picture myself living in some of these places, and some of these daydreams are quite pleasant indeed.
At left, we see something from the “beaux arts movement” in the Gilded Age of the late 19th Century that I find abhorrent. In its essence, it says that I have disdain for those less fortunate.
You don’t have a fireplace to keep you warm as you walk up one of your many staircases? What a tragedy.
We live in times when 1.5 billion people can’t get a glass of clean water and you want to live like this? You don’t care that the planet we live on is becoming more inhospitable with each passing year, as long as you can live in the most extreme upper end of luxury? There are rooms in your house that you’ve never even stepped in? Some that you can’t actually find?
Apparently this works for some, but not for me.
A friend from Texas writes: It’s been an interesting week! A lot to reflect on. And Texas seems to be the epicenter. Folks are pretty flabbergasted over the defeat of all statewide Republican candidates (including state supreme court justices) and the election of a Democratic party-controlled state house.
Yes, Texas blew everyone’s mind. I think what the GOP experienced was a double-whammy if you will.
Consumer prices are high, due at least in part to Trump’s inane and illegal war in Iran. This is impacting the lives of working class Americans.
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I’m pleased to be able to report that many people still have a conscience, which causes them to reject the GOP’s cruelty, dishonesty, dismissal of science, and criminality.
As shown here, white men, especially uneducated white men, are still not able to see that Trump is terrible for America.
If the last two years didn’t change that, it appears that nothing will.
The vast majority of Americans are thrilled that the midterms brought us the “blue tsunami,” but there are a couple of things that don’t really add up. You may have noticed that:
The U.S. wants a random alcoholic Fox News “journalist’s” head on the plate for having orchestrated the war in Iran, when all he was doing was pursuing his loyalty to Donald Trump, the man who started this asinine and grossly illegal war.
There seems to be no effort to cause Trump, who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. federal government, to face accountability for his treasonous acts.
What’s up with the media? Is there a concerted effort to avoid the facts? What’s the problem with honesty, and telling Americans the truth? Isn’t this the clearest instance of gaslighting in our history? Are we now trying to pretend that Trump never existed?
If such a landslide victory against a would-be autocrat had happened anywhere else on Earth, that traitor would be in prison now, in most cases facing execution.
