Bottled Water
I approve of the guy who wrote, “If you’re drinking Smart Water, it isn’t working.”
Seriously, smart (and decent) people try to avoid single-use plastics, regardless of what’s inside them.
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Defending Trump
As suggested here, attorneys who defend Trump must have certain key characteristics, one of which is a thorough indifference to getting paid.
Others include a profound desire for ignominy.
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Great Contrasts in World History
If we still have an organized civilization here on Earth in the year 2100, it will be interesting to look back and ponder the works of our great leaders. At left is what Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius stood for.
Stands in sharp contrast to a more recent world potentate.
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Can Young Voters Be Counted Upon?
We all hope that “Gen Z” voters will take the political issues seriously, and get to vote in impressive numbers. The expectation is a reasonable one, as, if they remain on the sidelines, it will be they who will inherit a collapsing environment and a deeply degraded democracy, if there is anything left of it at all.
The photo here, however, gives one pause.
The PR War on Electric Transportation
As the world transitions from gasoline and diesel to EVs, we can expect to see propaganda designed to impede this process.
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The War on Plant-Based Diets
The meme here is illustrative of the level of rank dishonesty to which the beef industry will sink in order to poison your mind against planet-based meats.
Of course, all this comes as a horrible insult to the reader’s intelligence, insofar as it assumes he doesn’t know anything about the process of gaining FDA approval.
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It’s Not Your Father’s Republican Party
I suppose it’s easier to make a statement like Kinzinger’s here once you have become a retired congressional Republican.
The point made in the “lower third” of the screen is also apt: this is a Republican party that bears very little resemblance to anything that preceded it.
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Guns in the Wrong Hands
It might not be right to invoke comedy in such a terrible situation as this. Yet it’s worth making the point that the United States stands alone for its promulgation of guns through a society that features a significant number of mentally deranged people.
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Do Unto Others- The Primary Teaching?
The Golden Rule is a teaching of these religions, though calling it the primary teaching is debatable. For those with monotheistic beliefs, e.g., Christians, Jews, and Muslims, I would argue that the main idea is that the universe and everything in it, including ourselves, was created by an all-powerful God, who commands us to worship him.
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Why Denmark Is a Happy Place
I just had the pleasure of meeting four people from Denmark, all about my own age, who are taking two of their six weeks paid vacation touring the U.S.
I asked them about their country’s status re: the World Happiness Rankings (consistently in the top five), and they commented that, in exchange for slightly higher taxes than we pay here, they get free healthcare, they are paid to go to college, and have very little homelessness and other forms of poverty. They’re also quite proud of their transition to renewable energy and electric transportation.
“Wouldn’t that make you happy?” one of them asked me with a grin.
