Exactly right, and the number of objects of Trump supporters’ hatred continues to grow; new categories of detestable people emerge continually. Now, on top of Muslims, Jews, blacks, Asians, LGBTQs, immigrants, poor people, libtards, people of science, we have woke. …
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“Global Warming” and “Climate Change”
Someone sent me the meme here and wrote: “A GOP strategist rebranded global warming as “climate change” because it sounds far, far less dangerous, problematic, severe, worrisome. The usual network of right-wing think tanks and media outlets immediately — as …
Trump: Doctors Profit from Over-Reporting COVID
How much is too much? When does it end? Rhetorical questions, to be sure. But here’s a real one: Given that the support of Trump from physicians is now essentially zero, how many constituencies are left?
Yes, Trump Has Kept His Promises, But That’s Not a Good Thing
As we will see here, Trump has kept the most important promises (explicit or implicit) that he made to the people who voted for him. An interesting question, though, is: Is the country better and stronger as a result? Here’s …
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Dubious Energy Storage Concept
Can energy be stored by pushing heavy stuff uphill? Of course. That’s what pumped hydro is, which represents over 95% of the utility-scale energy storage current implemented on this planet. It’s also what advanced rail energy storage (ARES) is, which …
Koch Network Re-evaluating Midterm Strategy Amid Frustrations with GOP, But Should Let Cooler Heads Prevail
According to this article: The network of groups affiliated with billionaire conservative donors Charles and David Koch are taking a new look at which Republican candidates to support this year. The groups still plan to spend up to $400 million on politics and policies this …
Scott Pruitt May Be Roundly Reviled, But He’s Really Had a TERRIFIC Year
If I asked you to name the very best year of your life thus far, you’d probably ask for clarification: Most joyful? Most productive? Most rewarding? You may end up talking about a graduation, your first love, the birth of your …
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Trump Signs Executive Order Converting U.S. Grid from AC to DC
(WASHINGTON, DC) “You know what electrons are, right? They make this thing called electricity, and that can be bad stuff…like lightning strikes and power outages,” said U.S. President Donald Trump as he signed into effect an executive order that will …
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Free Speech Issues Offer Real-World Challenges
Since the free-speech movement that began at Berkeley in 1967, academia has been beset by the complexities of free expression, namely, the limits past which free speech has no place in a civilization society. This topic, of course, has come …
Facts Have Ceased to Matter, and So Has a Whole Bunch of Other Stuff: Critic of Mandatory High School Algebra Defends His Position
Here’s an article in The New Yorker that looked like it must have certainly been a joke; it’s one that describes how Andrew Hacker, who claims that algebra should be cut from the core curriculum in U.S. schools, defended his …
