Every year, almost exactly one million American citizens of Hispanic descent turn 18 and become eligible to vote. When this figure first came to light, progressives cheered. After all, we wondered, won’t virtually every one of these young people embrace …
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Please take a second to read this dialog between Stephen Colbert and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Is this what would have surprised Carl Sagan most? I doubt it. From what I can remember, he had a low opinion of our civilization …
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MLK’s famous quote at left and that from lesser-known Pittsburgh sportswriter Harry Psaros (below) seem to be saying essentially the same thing, i.e., that small but steady improvements are possible, and that they’re the best we can hope for. Before …
Here at 2GreenEnergy we’ve discussed the externalities of fossil fuel consumption hundreds of times since our inception in 2009. An externality is a term in economics, meaning the costs associated with transactions that are shifted off to unwary third parties. …
Good quote here, but I’m wondering if the death of empathy and the fall into barbarism aren’t the same thing. In any case, life here in the United States is most certainly marked by our gross indifference to the suffering …
I had to laugh when a reader sent me the meme here, because I spent most of my career in marketing, writing statements intended to win people over. I hope my own weren’t this ludicrous, however. What does it mean …
It’s been proven over the past few years that making claims like the one in the billboard here is a worthless, and perhaps even self-defeating activity. Those who believe in things like false prophets, the Great Deceiver, the anti-Christ and …
The meme here came from a reader. There is no doubt that Trump and his Republican minions would be ecstatic if the nation looked the other way while: Matt Gaetz is appointed to be U.S. Attorney General. Let’s suppose that …
Here’s a post on which I’ll simply comment: “From your lips to God’s ears.” I’d love to believe there’s some merit here, but if there were, we wouldn’t be in this catastrophic situation in the first place. In fact, the …
Question: The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump announced on Monday that he would nominate former Representative Lee Zeldin, Republican of New York, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Mr. …
