When Honest People Resign, Who’s Left?
We come across this a lot, i.e., the mass resignation of honest people in government positions when they are faced with extraordinary levels of corruption and other untenable positions. As the senator from Connecticut points out, this is a double-edged sword. We applaud their integrity, but we need to deal with the fact that the only people remaining are the bad apples.
This happens constantly in the parts of government that deal with energy and the environment. Many dozens of our top scientists in the Department of Energy and the EPA have resigned their positions since Donald Trump came on the scene, and right-wing politics have made it impossible for them to carry on with their duties. Whom does this leave? Climate deniers and others who reject (or don’t understand) basic science.
There isn’t a heck of a lot of integrity left in the way modern-day Republicans and their “news” sources conduct themselves. It seems like just a few weeks ago, the key objective was to “drain the swamp” of the Deep State, i.e., unelected bureaucrats who frustrate the will of the voters.
The author of the meme here makes a good point.
Below is a claim about a type of energy storage that exists in great abundance today in the form of pumped hydro. We take off-peak electrical energy and use it to lift a mass against the force of gravity, converting the electrical energy to potential energy. Then, when we want to use that energy, we release the mass and allow it to come downhill, converting (most of) the potential energy back into electricity.
At the risk of sounding cynical, get used to it.
Although I’m reluctant to gainsay distinguished mathematicians/physicists, it’s hard to imagine that what 
With the passing of each day, we’re learning more about how Elon Musk fails to understand the most essential parts of the U.S. law.
At left we see a reader’s observation that the world has undergone some fundamental changes in the past few years.
When we look at people like RFK Jr. we’re forced to think: This guy just might be the very least qualified person for the job in the entire United States. He’s a crackpot, for sure, and he poses an extreme threat to the health and safety to every U.S. citizen. In Trump’s eyes, that makes him perfect for the job.
This is reminiscent of what the president of CBS said when Trump came on the political scene in 2015, something like: “I know he’s terrible for the country, but he’s terrific for CBS.”
