In his press conference early today, Donald Trump announced that, shortly after he was elected president in 2016, he defeated the Islamic State, aka, ISIS. I was skeptical, and, a few seconds later, after looking it up, I realized that …
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Should Trump Come After Our Social Security?
A reader sent me this, and remarked, “Keep your greasy little hands off our Social Security!” Most of Donald Trump’s MO makes sense. Appeal to people’s fears, hate, and greed, while exploiting the ignorance that has crept through the American …
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Extended Range EVs
Hyundai says it “is shaking up the sustainable mobility scene with its latest innovation, the Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) concept. This new model combines battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology with a range-extending internal combustion engine (ICE), promising to solve common …
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Former Defense Secretary Speaks on Trump
Here are some interesting remarks from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. With respect to these comments, we have three classes of relevant (Republican) voters: • The MAGA base, that is quite unlikely to come across them at all, and even …
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Re-Elect Trump? It Must Not Happen
Here’s Dick Cheney, U.S. Vice President from 2001 – 2009, speaking in language that a child could understand on the dangers of Donald Trump. I would encourage all undecided voters to consider what it means to have hundreds of high-profile …
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Linda Ronstadt on Donald Trump
I thought I’d make a brief comment on Linda Ronstadt’s statement below. Is anyone who grew up in the second half of the 20th Century surprised to learn that she sees through Trump as the criminal sociopath he is?
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News on the Electrical Grid in Germany
Couldn’t resist posting this, in which the German government refutes one of Trump’s misstatements about the stability of their grid. It’s also funny to see all this extra mileage coming from “eating dogs and cats.”
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From the Trump-Harris Debate
I thought I’d take this extremely powerful meme based on the recent Trump-Harris debate and make a borderline pedantic comment about grammar. Each of these statements, if phrased correctly, would be in the form of what is called a “predicate …
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What’s Our Excuse?
We don’t have an excuse, but we do have an explanation, and that is that human society is built around money. “Money talks and bullshit walks,” as they say. As you’re reading this, there are uber-wealthy people all around the …
Direct Air Capture of CO2
A reader sent me this piece on removing CO2 directly from the Earth’s atmosphere. I respond: I remain skeptical that ANY CONCEIVABLE technology can accomplish this feat. I can’t imagine how you run a gas (air) with concentration 0.04% CO2 …
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