RhodesKen
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5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Hurricane season again · 1 reply · +3 points
E.g., boosting photovoltaic electricity while correspondingly reducing combustion for electricity doesn't solve the problem, but it helps reduce the problem.
We can't eliminate the problem today, but we surely need to start chipping away at it at a faster pace than we have been. And the "coming together" doesn't have to be all of us pulling our oars in unison. We can each pull an oar, even if the oars are not all synchronized.
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Hurricane season again · 1 reply · +4 points
Yet there are still murders. So how has all that detective work and trial work and incarceration worked out? You know the definition of insanity?
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Hurricane season again · 2 replies · +1 points
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - U.S. Immigration Polic... · 0 replies · +2 points
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - U.S. Immigration Polic... · 5 replies · +1 points
The fact that the mother was unable to distance herself and her child from the other five families *in the same room* was not an accident of her financial status or her mental health or her education level. It was totally out of her control, once she had decided to seek asylum here.
Immigration policy my ass! It's a policy of disdain, pure and simple.
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - North Carolina Congres... · 1 reply · +2 points
Something that's disappointing to me, yet quite impressive in terms of "lawyering skills," is the way the NC legislature managed to delay for two years.
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - U.S. Dist. Judge Order... · 1 reply · +2 points
"Judicial appointments have consequences" is a true statement, but almost always the consequences were what was intended. That's because judicial appointments are made by politicians. When a politician appoints a judge there are expectations of what that judge will do, and it's a rare surprise when the appointing official is disappointed.
The problem we have to deal with is that when we elected that politician, or allowed it to happen by our apathy, then our political failure has consequences. I think it's often that secondary effect that's ignored by the ostriches among us who would bury their heads in the sand, proclaiming "none of those candidates are satisfactory to me."
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - How big a problem is h... · 0 replies · +1 points
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Statement from Former ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Yes, quite so. Nevertheless, a slightly more subtle signal than the ones we've been seeing for the last two years--the vitriolic tweets that seem to assault us every day.
5 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Language gaps · 1 reply · +1 points
I'm embarrassed that I would write that. But being correct isn't enough these days. Have to take the battle to the enemies of America, not just complain about them.