Sunday, October 27, 2024
sing along with project 2025
Sunday, September 29, 2024
robby starbuck
in case you were wondering, robby starbuck is a key player in the push for companies to drop their dei initiatives.
critical thinking education
debunking nra bullet points
the nra has a series of tropes that they've been trotting out for decades:
- this isn't the right time to talk about it
- gun laws don't work because criminals don't obey laws
- people who obtain guns legally don't commit crimes
- it's not a gun crisis, it's a mental health crisis
- women need gun for self-defense
- the uk banned guns and still have knife violence, so stop blaming guns
- restricting guns invites government tyranny
- guns don't kill people, people do. do you want to ban xxx next?
- what about chicago?
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
"go woke, go broke"
trump's transgressions
immigrants and crime
- a natural-born u.s. citizen is nearly twice as likely to commit a violent crime (such as rape or murder) as an undocumented immigrant.
- a natural-born u.s. citizen is more than 4 times as likely to steal or commit other property-based crimes as an undocumented immigrant.
- a natural-born u.s. citizen is more than twice as likely to commit a drug-based crime as an undocumented immigrant.
- a natural-born u.s. citizen is nearly twice as likely to commit a traffic violation as an undocumented immigrant.*
Thursday, September 5, 2024
wind turbines kill HOW many birds?
328,000 a year or so.
guess how many birds cats kill?
a little under 2 billion-with-a-b. but i don't see anyone rushing out to ban cats.
wanna see what else kills crazy numbers of birds? click here.
what percentage of congress doesn't believe in climate change?
at the time of this writing, 23 current members of the house and 100 members of the senate - all republicans - don't believe in human-caused climate change. that's nearly 1 in 4.
they also collected u.s.$52,071,133 in contributions from the fossil fuel industry.
on the plus side, the nuber of new members of congress who are climate change denialists is dropping like a rock.
click here to see who they are.