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The Dark Days End
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My...
View ArticleGood Enough for Thee But Not Good Enough for Me, Episode 58847613
1 This thread commemorates those brave politicians who didn't let lockdowns slow them down Send me other examples by DM, and I'll add them First, Deborah Birx: retiring in disgrace after gathering 2...
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304 Greenbush Street, Scranton, PA
My father-in-law;s family emigrated from Poland to end up working in the coal mines of Scranton, PA (really Dickson City). Here is the home he grew up in: Just wanted to share a few things about his...
View Article304 Greenbush Street, Dickson City, PA
My father-in-law’s home was, for many many years, heated by coal. (In my own apartment in NYC, we had oil heat, which I contend is no better). The job of the coal delivery driver was not at all fun. He...
View ArticleCourage for Our Time
Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall! Matthew Arnold
View ArticleThe Universality of Science
From the wonderful Freeman Dyson, There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions. But there...
View ArticleAll Systems Need to Be Resilient in the Presence of Evil
From Richard Pipes’ incredible book Communism: A History The Great Terror struck at the party membership as well as ordinary citizens. At its height, in 1937 and 1938, at le one and a half million...
View ArticleThe Soviet Robber Barons and Top 0.1%
M0re from Pipes: The massacres of 1937-38 virtually wiped out the ranks of “old Bolsheviks,” whose place was taken by newcomers. In 1939, 80.5 percent of the executive personnel of the Soviet Union’s...
View ArticleSoviet Population Fell by 10 million between 1932 and 1939
Maybe they forgot how to count? More from Pipes: For such an ideal, was it not worth sacrificing the sorry specimens that populated the corrupt world Seen from this perspective, existing humanity was...
View ArticleSaving the Planet One Solar Powered Non-Antiracist Trash Can at a Time
Solar powered trash cans do not pass the smell test. It is claimed that by installing solar panels on a bulky trash can that landfill space is saved and that maybe carbon emissions are reduced. Of...
View ArticleFrench Toast
You can’t just toss around the term “renewables,” it has no meaning. It really doesn’t. In addition to it having no meaning, the term is often conflated with “good” which again doesn’t follow from the...
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The Starbucks Rile Applied
In Cohocton. The Starbucks Rule, so to speak, is the idea (as reported in Business Week over a decade ago) that wind developers put projects in areas that are at least 30 miles away from the nearest...
View ArticleFun Facts Friday – “Science is Real!” Nuclear Edition
How many people were killed from the radiation fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear incident? … ZERO. Here is Robert Bryce: In 2013, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation released...
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Climate Justice, New York State Style
One of the desirable features of a nuclear power plant, particularly in an age when we are told that climate change is the greatest risk that faces humankind, is that once constructed, the marginal...
View ArticleRacial Justice and the Most Sacred Rights
Frederick Douglass, December 9, 1860. Boston, MA: No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men,...
View ArticlePreventive Medicine and Healthy Living vs. Treating Disease Once it Sets In
Every American school child and household by now understands that taking care of yourself, eating a balanced and healthy diet, exercising regularly, being aware of your vitals and overall well-being,...
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Doing the Work
If (when) Biden’s $15 national minimum wage causes disparate unemployment outcomes of black teens vs white teens, will we strike it down as racist policy? Remember, Kendi tells us that a policy is...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice Apartheid
{UPDATE: NYS Senate passes Green Amendment to the State Constitution. It includes, “In practice, this amendment will require government to consider the environment and its citizens’ relationship to it...
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Progenitor of Fake News Hysteria
Businessmen are stupid! The news are all against me! Fake news! Here is Brain Truster Ray Moley (i.e. an FDR insider and supporter) on FDR: (FDR) then launched into a violent attack upon business men...
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