Author: craigshields

I actually didn’t need another good reason to stay out of Chick-Fil-A, but it looks like I got one nonetheless.

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One of the many casualties of Project 2025 will be NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary, the National Hurricane Center.  The motive for dismantling NOAA?  It’s “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm …

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Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen probably wrote the content of the meme here as it applies to the Russian people under Putin. Americans need to hope that it has no real applicability to their lives here in the United States. In …

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The meme here is from a reader (who misspelled “tantrums.”) If I were a Democratic political strategist, I wouldn’t be trying to pin the concept of “weirdness” on Donald Trump and JD Vance. That’s because, if we’re being honest with …

“Weird” Isn’t the Word We’re Looking For  Read More »

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The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that driving an EV while the world is still transitioning away from gasoline is hypocritical. That doesn’t show much insight or intelligence. Yes, maybe his house has a gas generator …

Driving an EV Won’t Make the Need for Gasoline Disappear Immediately, But Isn’t that Obvious? Read More »

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The former chairman of the Maine Republican party understands the profound and tragic changes that the GOP has undergone, and its current status as a cult of dishonesty. Fortunately, a great many other Republicans have had that precise realization.

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If this were correct, the ship would sink if it was stationary. The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered that the net upward force on an object immersed in water is equal to the weight of the water displaced by the …

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Apparently, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel fashioned his quote here from the great Friedrich Nietzsche and his masterpiece “Beyond Good and Evil,” which contains this, IMO the definitive explanation of existentialism, and the most beautiful single sentence ever written …

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Right here and now, Cicero’s “good citizen” seems to have gone into hiding. Most Republicans will be voting for Trump, a man who has consistently thumbed his nose at our laws.

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I know there are right-wing voters all around the developed world, e.g., the Lepin followers in France. But consider the photo here.  Can anyone imagine the equivalence of this anywhere else than the U.S.? We somehow seem to have cornered …

Ignorance Abounds Read More »

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