Thursday GNR: More of the Same
Same old same old. Ds saving the US and the world; Rs tearing down everything, including each other; indictment watch; Joe Manchin (No Labels) is delusional, and so is Cornel West (Green Party)....
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Truth Sandwiches: Away with the Electoral College
Voting is good for all, or it is good for none. Compare the Reddest states where voting is suppressed, with the Bluest states where One Human One Vote is supported, on the rights of women and children,...
View ArticleAdam Smith on the Nature of Wealth
Everything for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to...
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The Koan of Sacrifice
Buddhism says to give up attachments of all kinds. A multitude of other religions have a piece of this elephant: give up something you value, often by killing it. It could be cattle, or birds, or other...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Zombies and Voudons and Trolls, Oh My!
We’re having a roundup today of recent Truth Sandwiches on Zombies Lies that Will Not Die (including Trumpish Cult lies), Voodoo Economics (with Starve the Beast), and trollishly trying to own the...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Let's Get Real
Are we headed to the #ClimateEmergency that has been trending on X/Twitter, or a Brave New World without greenhouse gas pollution? The answer is Yes, both. We are not going to kill the planet or...
View ArticleNightmares of the Anti-Woke
ledeWe saw The War on "Woke, Inc." a while back. It has taken me some time to get this Diary series organized, but I think I have it now. When the Church Woke, by William B. LawrenceComing SoonThe...
View ArticleThursday Good News: Arraignment Day!
It’s a big day for Democracy, the Rule of Law, Motherhood, and—What’s your favorite pie? (As Churchy once said in a Pogo strip, “Anything handy is purty favorite.”) It’s a big day, too, for...
View ArticleWalras on Economic Optima and How to Get There
Léon Walras is considered by some to be the greatest economist ever, for his marginal theory of value and general equilibrium theory. He put the concepts of Supply and Demand, and Adam Smith’s...
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Studying Koans in Detail
One of the great delusions is the idea that one can “solve” a koan, become “enlightened”/awakened, and be all set for the rest of one’s life. So then why did Shakyamuni Buddha train religiously every...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Got 'em by the Short Numbers
The Fossil Fools are still trying to gaslight us, lying that we can’t AFFORD cheaper and cleaner energy, saving Real MoneyTM, real lives, and the only available real planet. But we have them by the...
View ArticleThursday Good News Roundup: Pwn Goals
The haters want to harm—well, everyone but the filthy rich, as long as Those People get hurt worse, for a rapidly increasing value of Those. Ohio, where the viciously anti-abortion Issue 1 went down...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: The Wars on Children
Maga-driven lies about public education are picking up steam ahead of school starting. Power-seekers use these lies to fuel offline action to suppress truth in our curriculum and education...
View ArticleStarve the Beast Voodoonomics + Fake Math
Our book for today is Taxes, Death, and Trouble: How Starve the Beast Tax Cuts Created the Black Lives Matter Movement, by Andre L. Smith. For example, he cites Starving the Beast: Using Tax Policy and...
View ArticleSufi Koans
Jalaludin Rumi is acknowledged as the greatest of all the Muslim mystics, the Sufis, and their greatest poet. He speaks to people all over the world in their hearts, and calls them to the koan, to...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Global Boiling
When the UN talks of Global Boiling, it’s serious. But we are implementing solutions faster than ever. National goals have risen from nowhere near good enough to real plans for Net Zero. And whatever...
View ArticleThursday Good News Roundup: Calloo, Callay!
So much karma on their side, and wokeness on ours! So much screaming! So much that we get to do more of! So much good that we are doing, and planning to do after we win the Federal trifecta next year!...
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Friedrich Hayek: Social Democracy=Stalinism—No! Nazism!
F. A. Hayek is renowned for implacable opposition to the British National Health Service, on the grounds that it would inevitably make the UK a Stalinist nation. But it’s a myth. He says almost the...
View ArticleA Greek Koan: Where Zeno Went Right
Zeno of Elea“proved” in 9 paradoxes in support of the monism of Parmenides that motion is impossible, because it would require an infinity of steps to get anywhere. Math has dealt with that. But it is...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Objectives in Media are Closer than They Appear
Peak Coal: 2013. Peak Oil: 2023. Peak Natural Gas: Definitely before 2033. Peak Carbon: Before you know it. Where will the Greenwashers and the Oil and Gaslighters retreat to next? Saudi Oil Minister...
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