As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing you can buy on Amazon that you can’t on Ebay. In any case, I haven’t shopped on Amazon in the many years since it became apparent how poorly it treats its employees, and, …
Category: Renewables – Business
Mexico’s Grid-Mix Features Fuel Oil
Leaving tomorrow for five days in Mexico. Was concerned about blackouts, but then realized that Mexico’s grid-mix includes fuel oil, and they have plenty of that. In terms of stability in record-breaking temperatures, they’re in better shape than we are.
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The Consequence of the Rich Getting Richer
The illustration here depicts a great many important changes that have taken place in America since 1960, among them our religious observances, formality of dress, and use of technology. The author of the meme makes an even more important point, …
China’s Plan Is Brilliant, and It’s Being Executed with Laser-Like Precision
It seems that all our concern about China’s military expansion is simply needless worry. The Chinese are on a path toward world domination, but it doesn’t involve violence; it’s being accomplished by harnessing the stupidity of the United States and …
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Why the U.S. Doesn’t Tax Churches
The reason we don’t tax religions isn’t that we think they need to be subsidized. Rather, it’s that we don’t want what the Supreme Court (in its better days) deemed to be “excessive entanglement” between the church and state. The …
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Let’s Make Teaching as Unattractive a Profession As Possible
Virtually no response to the epidemic of school shootings, exposure to disease, greatly restricted methods of teaching and discipline, narrowed curricula, book bans, forced unpaid overtime, as well as lousy pay, have all teamed up to create a huge teacher …
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Why Are Americans So Sour on Biden?
The “receipt” here makes me wonder what Biden could possibly do to improve his dismal (40%) approval rating. As suggested by the falling gas prices and by the buoying of the Dow Jones, the market seems to believe we have …
Hawaii’s Last Shipment of Coal
Hawaii has said goodbye to coal, and will be doing its best to phase out oil, as an increasingly rich mix of renewables comes on line. From Governor David Ige: “This week Hawaii is receiving its final shipment of coal,” …
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A Problem that Requires an International Solution
Here’s a coincidence: I found the meme here, just minutes after hitting “publish” on my post on the new $700 billion spending package that passed the U.S. House of Representatives, containing $370 billion for climate and the environment. I wrote: …
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Democrats Appear To Have Climate Bill Passed
An old school chum who went on to become a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and I were talking about the coup attempt, during which I wrote: “I’ll never forget what you wrote in my yearbook: words to the …
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