5/21 Renewable Tuesday: Peak Global Pollution, Too!
In addition to CO2, burning carbon releases a wide variety of other pollutants that we will spare ourselves by going fully renewable. This is the year of Peak Carbon, so it is also the year of Peak...
View ArticleDiabetes: Weekly Insulins
Getting to one injection a week will be a huge advance in diabetes treatment. Today we have one product being considered by the FDA, and one in advancing clinical trials. And, of course, we have other...
View Article5/23 GNR: It's All Happening, and Here We are for It
If someone asks you how you find yourself in these terrible times, you can tell them, “Why, every morning I just fling back the covers, and there I am!”Pharrell Williams - Happy (Video)xxYouTube Video
View ArticleBoosting Dark Brandon
I have been writing about sharing Boosting Biden posts in this group. Now I want to point to another resource, my Pinterest Dark Brandon et al. board. You can use the regular Boosting BIden images,...
View ArticleEconomics Books: Thinking, Fast and Slow, Part 2
Fast thinking includes a wide range of mental illusions, of biases and even prejudices that can be taught to the young, but are not inherent in humanity. it also includes a wide range of bogus moral...
View ArticleKoan: Pride and Privilege
The highest level of koans in Rinzai practice is the Ten Precepts. Today we are going to do Pride combined with the delusion of privilege, as manifested in Ultra-MAGAism. “Do not be proud of yourself...
View Article5/28 Renewable Tuesday: Solar Disasters in Africa
We have been seeing a lot of good news about renewable energy, including reaching Peak Carbon and Peak Pollution, so that it is all downhill from here, globally, toward Carbon Neutrality. But not in...
View ArticleDiabetes: Another Scam
Nooro claims FDA approval for an electrical stimulation device for feet, to treat diabetic and other neuropathy. The FDA has no information on the company. No trials, no applications, nothing approved....
View Article5/30 GNR: Michigan MAGA Madness
I’m going to pull a bit of a Rachel Maddow on you today, delving into some amazing history from not all that long ago that some of us may have forgotten, and all of them are in deep denial over. If you...
View ArticleBoosting Biden Outreach: When They Try to Demonize Our Joe
This post was soooooo easy to put together. I had done a search for “boosting biden” on X. And look!!! All of these popped up! OK, then. I went with them. My deepest thanks go to all of the usual...
View ArticleEconomics Books: A Bidenomics Library
I’m bringing my Economics Books series to an end today, not with a single book, but with a survey of books explicitly on Bidenomics, pro and con job. I am going to rearrange my writing schedule, and...
View ArticleThe Koan of Faith and Doubt
Many Christians make a great production of faith in the unknowable. This is not what faith means in Buddhism. We must bring forth faith in the evidence of those who have passed through Mumon’s Doorless...
View Article6/4 Renewable Tuesday: Carbon's Death of a Billion Cuts
We need to replace all of the fossil fuel powered electricity generation plants, thousands of them, but we also need to replace cars, gas stoves, water heaters, air conditioners, and more by the...
View ArticleDiabetes: A New Option for Severe Hypoglycemia
The usual treatment for mild or moderate hypoglycemia is eating carbs, preferably glucose tablets. But they can take ten minutes to take effect as the glucose moves from the stomach into the...
View Article6/6 GNR: Fear and Loathing in the Swing States
I have set myself to document for you what disasters the Rs have cued up for themselves in this election. What will happen in the swing states, and which other states might start to swing? We looked at...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Disinformation
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted about the Truth Brigade for months now. Stuff happened. But here we go again. Disinformation is naturally our chief target, although we can’t get into party politics as...
View ArticleBoosting Biden to Truth Social Groups
From a recent GNR: “The platform [Mistruth Antisocial] is currently getting 76,000 visits per day. And you know some are from people who need to follow tRump because they’re journalists or political...
View ArticleKoan: A Shasta Abbey Dharma Talk on Transferring Merit
Everything in Buddhism is interconnected. Here we look at how Kanzeon teaches compassion, and how compassion leads to transfer of merit as a radically unselfish action that Buddhists of many kinds do...
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