Plant-based meats, which once seemed destined to help us reduce our consumption of slaughtered cows and lower the vast ecological damage that the beef industry is inflicting on our planet, seems to have failed. Beyond Meat, which is the only …
Category: Sustainability
A Metaphor on the Natural Forces that Support Human Life on Earth
I met a guy yesterday who told me, “We live on this planet at the generosity of the forces of nature. These privileges can be withdrawn at any time, and without notice.” I thought that was clever.
Progressivism
Everyone living in the United States benefits from our federal, state, and local governments in many dozens of different ways, from roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, banking insurance, help for veterans, national forests, public schooling (K-12), firefighting, criminal justice, fuel pipelines, …
Atheism
As shown at left, unless your theistic views are harming others, atheists will simply leave you alone. Examples of “harming others” include teaching creationism in schools as science and going to war because you believe God or Jesus wants you …
This is How Stupid American Consumers Have Become
I don’t know how many of our readers have seen this, but there is an array of new products that use pressurized steam to clean kitchens and bathrooms. Imagine you have, as shown at left, baked on grease on the …
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Losing My Religion
Some may find the claim at left compelling. But consider Japan, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland that are almost completely atheist. The other nations in Western Europe have also steadily moved away from religion. Have they …
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Is It Odd that Many Words in English are Supernumerary? Or Is that Superfluous? Extraneous? Unnecessary?
Not at all. English has an uncountable thousands of words it doesn’t need. If you don’t believe me, check out “A Word a Day,” and learn the meanings of words that are completely useless. The last two days brought us: …
The Universe Doesn’t Care About Us
If you believe that a loving God has a plan for you, and is steadily guiding you towards happiness, then you disagree with the assertion here. The rest of us are forced to admit that the universe is cooly indifferent …
Fearing God
It’s said that those who act decently because they fear the wrath of God and being sent to hell in the afterlife are simply terrible people on a leash. That speaks to me.
Equal Outcomes?
Thomas Sowell is not an idiot, and thus he must know that no one wants a social order in which everyone’s lives turn out the same. Does anyone truly believe that drug addicts, morons, and lazy slobs should enjoy the …
