To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Is ‘Icarus’ The Solution To Climate Change?

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Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach umbrella? Check. Tinted car windows? Check. A huge, multitrillion-dollar parasol floating in outer space to reduce global warming? Uh … huh? Ready or not, here come the corporate hucksters and techno-fantasists with a dazzling scheme […]

The Roberts Supreme Court: Too Extreme For Voters

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The John Roberts Supreme Court, aka the Extreme Court, is a clear and present danger to democracy. Its approval rating has sunk to a record low, under 40%. Chief Justice Roberts is responsible for the worst rulings since Chief Justice Roger Taney rode into town for 30 years and set off the Civil War. In […]

The State Of The Union

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The Republicans should be mortified. In fact, by all accounts, they are. Rolling Stone featured an entire article quoting their reactions to Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s embarrassing response to the president’s State of the Union speech. Describing the speech as “feeling more like a rejected audition tape for a supporting role on Grey’s Anatomy,” delivered […]

Embryos Are Not Children

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The decision of the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are protected as children is being viewed as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement, which is ironic, to say the least, since its most immediate impact is to make the hellish trip to having children through in vitro fertilization even more difficult. So much […]

What Happened To The ‘Miracle Of Meatless Meat’?

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“Step right up, folks, and bite into the wondrous future of meat!” Cheap meat! Ethical meat! Animal meat you love – beef, chicken, pork, fish, etc. – all produced without animals! It’s the miracle of “meatless meat” – a viscous mass derived from “fetal bovine serum” and then grown not on ranches but in huge […]