Young readers may not recognize this scene from 1975’s “Blazing Saddles,” where the black dude has been appointed the new sheriff of a town on the western frontier. The bigoted white folks are extremely resentful, and here, the amiable town …
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Untrustworthy Information
I almost clicked on this, then suddenly noticed that it’s sponsored by Chevron. Oh sure. I trust the international criminal organization, convicted of dumping carcinogenic waste into the rivers of Ecuador, deliberately poisoning the indigenous people, for an honest report …
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Facebook and RFK, Jr.
I highly doubt that Facebook gives a rat’s ass about your campaign, just like the vast majority of other Americans.
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Adding Solar PV to Your EV
Here’s a new concept in electric transportation that I don’t expect to catch on. Imagine you park your car somewhere on a sunny day, you unlock a roof-mounted container, and pull out an array of solar PV that you then …
Trump on the Golf Course
Why on Earth would anyone have expected anything else? Concern for others is so far off-brand for Trump, it would be like McDonalds serving fresh-squeezed turmeric juice and wheat germ.
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Trying in Vain to Understand Trumpism
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Trumpism is that the top people who worked for the former president during his term in the White House refuse to support him for re-election, including our top military officers, but that the typical …
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What Is “Doggie Consciousness?”
Humankind domesticated the dog approximately 20K years ago, and since that time, most of us “dog people” have struggled with the issue: What is it like to be a dog? At what level do they think? Obviously, they’re beholden to …
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Trump and Biden: The Reasons for Their Candidacies
Alexander Vindman entered the American consciousness when he blew the whistle on Trump for extorting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskye; Trump sought to offer military assistance in fighting the Russian invaders in exchange for Zelenskye’s willingness to dig up dirt on …
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Pure Scientific Research
Here’s a short video that a reader sent me in which Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the importance of pure research, i.e., theoretical scientific research, normally in physics, performed without an eye towards the development of anything of purpose. He pointed …
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U.S. Supreme Court Has the Nation’s Back to the Wall
Every American should be terrified of what’s happening within the U.S. Supreme Court–in particular with the presidential immunity case, in which our nation has been refashioned into a monarchy.
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