“We All Have the Same God”
If any significant number of religious people looked at this subject the way Mohammad Ali did, we wouldn’t have the vast oceans of hatred and cruelty that dominate the human race.
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Elon Musk’s Bizarre Grasp on the U.S. Government
The United States federal government is reeling under some of the most vicious assaults in the entirety of its nearly-250-year history.
First, in his attempt to stay in power after his loss in 2020, Donald Trump went on a flat-out attack design to overturn the election results, involving a large ring of coconspirators and at least a few thousand foot-soldiers, including both the insurrectionists and the fake electors.
More recently, Elon Musk came to Washington with his virtually unlimited sums of cash, so as to turn congress on its head.
Where from here? No one knows.
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Republicans Have Lost Their Grasp on Basic Rationality
Until the last decade or so, Republicans were fairly reasonable people.
How all this lunacy came along is anyone’s guess.
Flower Turbines: Just Another Exercise in Futility in Small Wind
These guys have been raising capital since they were founded 12 years ago. Will investors ever see a dime in return? No.
As it has been shown consistently, small wind is a nonstarter, and the only thing special about this organization is the ferocity with which it fishes for new marks.
There current claim is the low “cut-in speed,” (see photo at right) meaning the wind speed at which the turbines start to turn. 
This, of course, is completely irrelevant, since the power generated by a moving fluid is proportional to the cube of the velocity, and so low wind speeds produce almost zero power.
Trump Faces Uphill Battle in Attacking Dissenting Journalists
Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging.
Even with the enormous amount of power that Trump will have, however, it’s going to be immensely difficult for him to succeed in this venture, if only because journalism is the only profession mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
From the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…
Investing Oneself Into Others’ Lives
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet Charles Bukowski is: “It shouldn’t have to have happen to you for it to matter to you.”
FWIW, this is just another way of looking at the term “woke.” Decent people honestly care about the well-being of others.
Will We “Perish Together as Fools?”
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war.
In any case, it was a time when there was very little awareness that humankind was on course to ruin our planet’s environment and would soon suffer the extreme effects of global warming and the staggering loss of biodiversity. Just 60 years later, it is these conditions that threaten our very survival.
Atheism and Humor
What happens when you combine British comedy with a disbelief in the supreme being? You get Ricky Gervais, who, as suggested at left, has a biting sense of humor.
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Wealth Gap and the Collapse of the Environment
Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of our environment.
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Parallels Between Ancient Greece and Modern America
I recall asking a docent at the Getty Villa Museum that houses antiquities how it was possible that the people of ancient Greece both developed mathematics, philosophy, democracy , etc. and believed that the god Mercury pulled the sun across the sky is his chariot.
He explained, “The situation then was not all that dissimilar to that of today’s United States. Most of our scientists and urbanites are atheists, as were the people who lived in or near Athens. But go out into the rural areas where most people were farmers, where highly educated people are rare, and folks tend to be deeply religious.”
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