British particle physicist Brian Cox is one of those incredibly bright fellows who doesn’t mind being in the public eye, and making observations that transcend science itself. What he says here about stupidity is interesting. I would only add that …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Annexing Canada: More
Gotta give this map-maker credit. Obviously, none of this is ever going to happen, but the sentiment here is spot-on. Some speculate that the talk about Canada, Greenland, the “Gulf of America,” and Panama is a distraction from the issues …
Annexing Canada
I don’t know exactly what percentage of Canadians feel the same way this guy does, but I bet it’s very close to 100. Canadians tend to be sane, intelligent, and warm people. They’re the antimatter of the MAGA Trump base.
Tagged with: MAGA Trump base
Trump on Greenland, the Panama Canal
From the Associated Press: PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both …
“Trump Will Not Be Mandating Anything to Me.” Or Will He?
This from a reader. My response: Well, I appreciate your bravado, but I question your understanding of the magnitude of the power that the U.S. federal government has over the common American. Unless we make major changes quickly, you will …
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The Brave Hearts within the Republican Party
As a few brave congressional Republicans stay the course and maintain their integrity under the most ferocious opposition from Donald Trump, all the rest of the civilized world can say is well done.
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The Truth about the American “System”
The statement at left has a certain surface-level appeal, but it’s inaccurate. What’s true: The United States was started by rich white male landowners, and its original laws were put into place to maintain the dominance of the wealthy Europeans. …
Tagged with: Brown vs. Board of Ed., neoliberalism that blossomed under Reagan, organized labor, post-WW2 booming affluence of the middle class, super-rich forged a way to use their wealth to take control of our lawmaking processes, the abolitionists of the mid-19th Century, the anarchists of the early 20th Century, the Civil Rights Act, the United States began its path toward oligarchy, the women's suffragists
Are Our Schools Keeping Secrets from Parents?
I don’t know a single person stupid enough to believe that schools keep the curricula secret from parents. You’re more than welcome to walk into your kids’ school, meet their teachers and administrators, leaf through the textbooks, join the PTA, …
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One Year from Now in American Politics
What do you think is going to happen when, in a few months, consumer prices haven’t fallen? Answer: Fox News and the MAGA crowd will drop the topic like a hot rock, and pretend that Trump never promised to lower …
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Along with the Rest of America, Tech Moves to the Right
America’s political sensibilities are moving to the right, along with many other countries like Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and that’s sad, but it’s a choice that the people of the United States are free to …
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Tagged with: America's political sensibilities are moving to the right, billionaires who couldn't care less about the well-being of the common American much less the environment, Donald Trump a convicted felon, Donald Trump an adjudicated sex abuser, Donald Trump an indicted traitor to his country, hateful morons, Marc Andreessen at the forefront of the tech industry since the dawn of the Internet 30 years ago, we're surrounded by a growing number of poorly educated racists
