Here’s a meme for the true moron. News flash: Schools teach neither patriotism nor “trendy ideologies.” IMO, if a particular teacher wanted to make a point on the subject here, it should be that the use of the U.S. military …
Category: Sustainability
The Cost of Ignorance
As Ben Franklin observed in the 18th Century, ignorance imposes huge costs on society in many different forms. Sure, crime is among them, but take a look at what just happened here in the U.S. in November. The most poorly …
Tagged with: Trump administration's Project 2025
Christianity Isn’t Retreating
This guy makes an interesting point, one we’ve all encountered many times: science will replace religion. But if he were correct, Christianity would have begun to fade out in the 1860s and would be long gone by now.
Tagged with: science and Christianity
Environmentalism Is Passing Through a Phase
Before the early 1960s, very few people believed that Earth’s environment needed to be protected. In fact, the prevalent thinking at the midpoint in the 20th Century was that the environment is here to serve humankind, that anything we did …
Getting Rid of Liberals
A reader sent me the meme at left and replied: “Liberals!” Ha! You’re not alone in your beliefs. But when we’re gone, you will be living in a country that features: • Lousy education and even higher levels of ignorance …
High-Speed Rail May Not Be for the United States
High-speed rail is nice, but there are obvious challenges associated with it here in America, e.g., obtaining the required easements and dealing with what I know to be the considerable resistance from the airline industry. We may need to accept …
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Honor and Fraud
What Sophocles said here was widely accepted in the U.S. when I was a young man, say 50 years ago. Today, you’ll find shockingly few Americans who actively live according to this rule. This is why, to take an example, …
Tagged with: corporations that bilk their customers
Colonizing Other Planets
Does exporting humankind’s woes to another planet seem like a reasonable idea? Do we really want greed, fascism, war, poverty, ignorance, racism, tribalism, the rationing of healthcare, and xenophobia on Mars? What would this accomplish of any value?
Tagged with: colonizing Mars
Costco Comes Through Where Others Won’t
I boycott Home Depot and Walmart, but I happily shop at Costco. My reasoning is at left. They treat their employees fairly, they don’t gouge their customers, and they often do something nice for the world.
Life in Sweden Bears Little Resemblance to What We Have Here in America
There is a reason that the United States doesn’t resemble Sweden, and that is it’s harder for billionaires to become multi-billionaires. Life in America is deeply rooted in corruption, in which rich people buy favorable legislation from Congress. This type …
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