Sadly, many Americans are motivated by xenophobia and the false notion that immigrants are the reason that they’re failing to get ahead financially. But can these folks possibly represent anywhere near a majority?
Aren’t there a ton of constituencies that want nothing whatsoever to do with the GOP, especially women?
In any case, what Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe says is correct: the upcoming 2022 midterms may be our last opportunity to preserve democracy.
If you want one of these “wind trees” for your back yard because you find them attractive, that’s up to you. If you think they could represent a cost-effective way to generate electricity, you’re completely incorrect.
In the 14 years I’ve been covering electric transportation, I’ve seen the announcement of many dozens of low-speed EVs, every one of which has failed to gain any real traction in the market. Manufacturers of cars that don’t pass highway safety standards must limit their vehicles’ speed to such an extent that they are truly inconvenient, and even dangerous, to drive on open roads.
As suggested in the photo here, this does not prevent charlatans from raising capital from uniformed investors.
A reader sent me this meme composed by British economist Richard Wellings. My comments:
The reason we have a water shortage is prolonged droughts, largely driven by climate change. Reservoirs hold water; they don’t make water. I.e., we have plenty of reservoirs, but they don’t have enough water in them. In fact, we’re considering knocking down the Glen Canyon Dam, thus combining Lake Powell and Lake Mead, so as to reduce losses due to evaporation and leakage.
The average uptime of the U.S. electrical grid is 99.96%. Americans experience, on average, four hours of downtime per year. The only significant problem we have is in Texas, whose grid (ERCOT) is operated so as to maximize investors profits, rather than to provide reliable power. Many of us consider this an outrage.
There are aspects of the “green agenda” that are, IMO, off kilter, but people who are critical of the general concept are just as ill-informed as Richard Wellings.
My wife commented on this piece, “Yes, he’s a moron.” I replied, “Actually, my supposition is that he himself is not a moron; he just believes, and I’m sure he’s correct, that his readers fall into this category.”
I take exception to authors whose business model boils down to angering idiots by lying to them. How about a little intellectual integrity?
Those outside the U.S. may not get the joke here. It’s a reference to the senate race in Pennsylvania, it which the state’s current lieutenant governor, a perfectly decent human being, may lose to a conman who has made a fortune selling phony cures on television.
To add some science to the discussion, it’s incorrect to say that a dandelion is not a “weed,” which is defined as an “unwanted plant.” Anywhere they’re unwanted, they’re weeds.
Now, perhaps we should rethink what plants we want around us.
I was brought up believing that hell was real, though later in life I’d grown skeptical. It seemed like an idea incompatible with a loving God and with the very idea of Grace.
I’m not sure that hell exists, but today I admit to being strangely hopeful.(more…)
Here’s a combination of self-deprecating humility and raw truth.
In particular, these folks are surrounded by cowards. What other description applies to people who know goddamn well that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, but don’t have the guts to say that openly? Their spinelessness has America on the brink of civil war.