Geoengineering
The term “geoengineering” means applying some sort of technology aimed at helping the planet to better support life as global conditions change, especially as temperatures rise. (more…)
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What Does a Healthy Lawn Look Like?
I’m sure there are many Americans who agree that, if we had our decisions re: lawn maintenance to make over again, we’d rather have built habitat for bees and rabbits than fashion our yards after the way suburban houses looked in the 1950s.
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Critical Race Theory and Black History
There is an argument being made, particularly in the Deep South, that our schools’ curricula should not include what academics sometimes call “critical race theory,” i.e., the set of facts surrounding black history in the United States. That means the telling of how the economy of the South was largely built on the backs of centuries of black slavery, but it also encompasses Jim Crow laws and the more subtle forms of exclusion of blacks from white society to persist to this day.
The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that those opposing teaching these truths intend to prevent any progress for black people in American society, and, perhaps, would like to see various forms of regression into our terrible past.
I can’t offer any other interpretation.
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Kindness
As suggested in the meme here, the “kindness movement” has been a big deal in our culture. Mr. Roberts is well-remembered for what he taught our children about how to get along with one another.
Sadly, the concept of kindness hit upon hard times with the anti-wokeism MAGA crowd, but we hope that’s just a passing fad, and that human decency will once again form the bedrock of our society.
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How to Spot Idiots
Here’s a Was this a real address, or something mocked up as a scene in some sort of movie or TV show? It doesn’t matter. Highly recommended.
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Trump Allegedly Broke the Law, But to Republicans, That’s Not the Point
The meme here doesn’t accurately reflect what most Republicans believe about how Trump is being handled by the U.S. justice system. If you tune in Fox News or Newsmax (not that I recommend this), you will be told, without any proof of course, that Biden has weaponized the DoJ against his political opponent.
You will “learn,” in other words, that not a single of the 91 charges against Trump in four indictments would have been brought against anyone else.
Now, you have to be frighteningly gullible to believe that. You have to want to believe that with every fiber of your being and be completely unable to examine the truth.
Start with the idea that the FBI could have caught you or me with boxes of classified documents in our homes, and that we would not have been immediately arrested. That’s the level of thinking going on here.
Yet this is the reality of where we’ve come, and how far we’ve descended in terms of evidence-based thinking.
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Mr. Trash Wheel
Here’s a cool video on a water wheel-style boat that cruises around picking up trash, mostly plastic waste, from our harbors.
If this generates awareness of the problem, that’s great. But I’ve become convinced that the only real place to fight plastic pollution is upstream, i.e., reducing the amount of waste in the first place. To me, this means a blend of consumers’ refusing to purchase single-use plastics, and pressuring manufactures to quit this practice as well.
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Idiots and Geniuses
I disagree. There are idiots all over the world who think they’re geniuses, and none of them is causing the least bit of harm to human civilization.
The problem here is that, for some reason, tens of millions of Americans can’t see that this man is a criminal sociopath, with no interest whatsoever in anything other than his own enrichment.
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Banning “Woke” Terms
What are America’s priorities, and where does the banning of “woke” terms like “pregnant people” fit among them?
I guess that’s a function of where, geographically, you live in the U.S. The sensibilities of the people of the South don’t mesh too well with those in the more progressive, better-educated parts of the rest of the nation.
If you hail from places like New England, the mid-Atlantic states, or the west, it’s hard to imagine getting worked up about banning the use of gender pronouns when the planet is on fire, teachers are leaving the profession, and countries like Russia and Iran are threatening to transform half of the world into one big autocracy in a permanent state of war, conventional and perhaps nuclear.
How Biden Is Portrayed in the American Media
The woman who cuts my hair is one of tens of millions of Americans who believe that Joe Biden is senile, and thus unfit to be U.S. president. I run into this constantly, as there is an entire “news” industry that is in place largely to promote this notion, or whatever the MAGA crowd’s message of the month happens to be.
It seems to me that what viewers of programming at places like Fox News and Newsmax are seeing are clips taken out of context that make the president appear to be mentally incompetent. When he’s quoted by any of the world’s other journalistic organizations, he appears to do pretty well. He’s not Churchill or Obama, but he seems to get by fairly decently.
Since my mom watches Newsmax, I sometimes tune it in to see what’s it’s like. I happened to be watching it the other night just as they were introducing Biden’s speech on Israel, Hamas, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine. I noted that they prepared the viewer to see a horror show, a bumbling old fool who can barely string together a few coherent words without losing his train of thought.
Less than three minutes into the speech, it was clear, even to them, they had gotten this entirely wrong. Again, Biden isn’t Ronald Reagan, but it was abundantly clear to everyone that he was doing a perfectly fine job. How did Newsmax address this debacle?
“We’re going to cut away from this speech at this point…..” — at which time, with no explanation, they went back to the talking heads discussing how none of the world’s military challenges would have happened if Donald Trump were president, and how he’s under attack by the Deep State, and his political opponents who have weaponized the Justice Department.
I roared in laughter, having witnessed with my own eyes and ears a “news” organization that has absolutely zero journalistic integrity. I may have been the only Newsmax viewer at the time who had this experience, and perhaps breaking down into tears at the pathetic state of the American news consumer would have been the more appropriate response.
It’s hard to believe we’ve sunk to this.
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