Last chance for solar & other renewable energy?

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As we round out the end of the first half of Obama’s second term, we’re wondering why we’re still so far behind on renewable energy.  China, a nation with roughly equal land-size as the United States, and a similarly-sized economy, has run away from the United States on renewable energy during Obama’s watch.  No matter how…

On the transferrability of guilt or innocence

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People don’t exist alone – we exist in society – peacefully, socially, economically, and even empathetically.  Very few people can survive true isolation, living only off the land.  Just as a newborn will absorb diseases from its mother, we absorb guilt from the human machine through our reliance upon it. Just as the economic money-blood…

The Real Reason the Pope Resigned

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This is a serious, offensive, humorous update on reality, in the absence of any kind of Pope in the Vatican, as Ratzinger steps down from his theatre of colonialism. All I did was publish this crushing critique of the Catholic organization, and not even 10 months later, the Pope’s stepping down for the first time in over…

Pythagoras: an introductory biography

Pythagoras was born  in 560 BC, on the Greek island of Samos.  Pythagoas influenced Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, and the general world of western philosophy.  Pythagoras is the earliest, best-known Greek philosopher, though he never wrote a word (to our knowledge). All of what we know about him comes from what his students wrote,…