I heard an interview with a university English professor the other day, and was surprised and dismayed to learn that she believes that most of the bad grammar we run across in our daily lives is actually the natural and …
The English Language Is Constantly Shifting, But . . . Read More »
This nicely dressed fellow says, “I’ll stick with my gas-powered car,” and he’s at liberty to do that. What he won’t be able to do, however, is to prevent the end of gas and diesel power trains in favor of …
Like many lifelong Republicans, my mom is a reluctant Trump supporter. She disapproves of a great deal of the former president’s behavior, but, like many in her position, couldn’t bring herself to vote for a Democrat under any circumstances. I …
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty sent me the meme here; clearly he makes a good point. FWIW, this is my rebuttal to those who hope that Trump simply gets hit by a bus or suffers a fatal heat attack. The …
America Needs to Prove Something to Itself–and to the World Read More »
I seriously doubt that hypocritical Christians are driving people away from the religion as a whole. Yes, the evangelicals may be slightly more fanatical and hateful than they’ve ever been in the past, but this whole phenomenon has been around …
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I heard a captivating radio interview today with journalist Victoria St. Martin reporting for Inside Climate News, who is covering the upshot of a “heat-dome” event in the summer of 2021 in the northern part of Oregon, a region of …
As suggested here, the rest of the world thinks that the United States’ demand that it proliferate guns throughout its society qualifies us as completely insane. Hard to deny that. The real issue, of course, is that this conversation is not …
Did God give you your love of other animals, or was it part of your basic nature?
18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume spoke to us on how our minds interact with the world around us to form our base of knowledge, saying, “We always disbelieve the greater miracle.” In other words, when two of our perceptions …
It’s said that when one joins a cult, the first thing one learns is that everyone else is lying, and the only source of truth is the cult leader himself. Let’s extend that into the world of Trump/MAGA. These people …
