I couldn’t have told you that The Netherlands has both a prime minister and a king, but I could have predicted that bicycling would have somehow been involved in a meeting of the two. Like good people all over the …
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Considering the circus that is the executive branch of the U.S. government, saying that something is “obvious” is no longer a meaningful statement. What was obvious to all Americans 20 years ago, e.g., Nazis are bad, pathological liars shouldn’t run …
The U.S. Senate is an extremely powerful institution whose tasks include the approval of treaties, the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, as well as conducting the trials of those impeached by the House. Senators serve six-year …
Here’s a little video that pokes fun at young people for not voting. Extremely well done. Virtually anything we might want: money out of politics, affordable healthcare, quality education, social programs, women’s reproductive rights, environmental stewardship, peace agreements held intact, …
Like every other country on Earth, the United States is not at all homogeneous, but, rather, composed of regions that have their own character, some charming, others not so much. Maine is known for its bountiful lobsters and its boots …
My mom and I had one of our wonderful talks the other day in which we traded observations on things we’ve been reading, the vicissitudes within our modest stock portfolios, and world politics.
What should happen when we, as a civilization, come to learn that the use of a certain substance represents an unacceptable environmental danger? This is not an idle exercise; in fact, it happens every month or so, and the pace of …
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Germany has released its plan to close all 84 of its currently operating coal-fired power plants by 2038 and rely primarily on renewable energy. For decades, Germany has taken bold steps in the direction of renewables, a path that was …
My recent piece on waste plastic dealt with the pollution of our oceans. It’s going to take an enormous amount of time, capital resources, and tech R&D to solve this problem. Here’s a video on a subject that may be …
Here’s a piece from the PBS News Hour, presenting the sad fact that the evolution of the human brain is the largest single contributor to our civilization’s sluggish reaction to the climate catastrophe that science assures us is headed our …
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