Tag: Climate Change
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Why Does Our News Media Insist On Equating Bullsh*t With Truth?
Some day, when the worst of Trumpism is behind us and American democracy is no longer under threat (or even duress), we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long, hard look at how our news media performed during this patch of time. Now, in their defense, America really hasn’t faced circumstances quite like…
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We’re ALL Greedy In One Way Or Another; Our Obligation — Keep “Our” Greed In Check
[NOTE: This blog post is being shared with our sister site “The Faitheism Project“] Not everyone is greedy for money. Some people are greedy for love and couldn’t care less about money. Some of us are greedy for credit. We’ll take ownership of work and labor that we did not do. Some are greedy for…
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If Every Human Could Be Merged Into A Single REASONABLE Human, Here’s What THAT Human Might Do…
If we were able to put out a “help wanted” ad on some cosmic Craigslist, but the ad stressed that the human we’re looking for MUST BE REASONABLE, we’d instantly exclude a third of humanity. I’ll own it — I’m extrapolating from this country onto humanity in general. Trump’s approval ratings in America still ping-pongs…
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Plastic Is Killing All Life On The Planet
Stories like this break your heart. A whale dying because its stomach was filled with plastic that we dumped into their living space. For a long, long time, we’ve taken plastic for granted. It’s ordinariness was even the point of a classic line of movie dialogue: “I have one word for you… you listening? Plastics.”…
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The Problem With “Doing Nothing”…
Got a problem? Doing nothing will not solve it. That’s a stone cold fact. That’s not to say you can’t get lucky — and time resolves what your inaction didn’t. But that wasn’t you solving your problem, that was you hiding from it until a solution presented itself. Not the same thing. One of the…
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Dear American Press: Please Get This – Truth Will Always Outweigh Bullshit
It seems so damned elemental it shouldn’t need explaining: Truth and lies are entirely different things. Being made of reality and real stuff, the Truth always has heft. The Truth can be unbearably heavy at times. Bullshit on the other hand — while it looks like it weighs a ton — weighs nothing. That’s what…
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Republicans Are The “Mission Accomplished” Party; That’s Great Until You Realize What Their “Mission” Is…
Who can forget W aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2, 2003 – proudly proclaiming just what the banner behind him said: “Mission Accomplished”. That image haunted W’s presidency. It haunts him to this day because nothing had actually been accomplished. The only thing they’d succeeded at, mission-wise, up to that point was successfully hanging…
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It’s Time To Play “BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT”
Hi there, ladies ‘n germs — I’m your host Chuck Todd (excuse me while I roll my eyes thoughtfully as if I was physically capable of having thoughts) — — And welcome to another installment of “Benefit Of The Doubt — the game show where we give the benefit of the doubt to folks who…