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The United States, absent on climate

By Mark | August 27, 2019

It’s old news by this point, but, during the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, France, Donald Trump not only lobbied hard to get Russian dictator Vladimir Putin reinstated in the group, and made the case to have next year’s event at his failing, bedbug infested Doral golf club, but, like the coward that he is, […]

Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged cancer, Climate Change, Donald Trump, environmental impact study, France, G7, Global Warming, global warming denial, hurricanes, lies, renewable energy, Sharknado, Vladimir Putin, wind energy | 12 Comments

Keep right on pretending to pray, but not even God himself can save you now, Donald Trump

By Mark | July 12, 2017

Remember how, not too long ago, I was telling you to keep an eye on Donald Trump’s religiosity? My thinking at the time was that the more ‘in peril’ our President believes himself to be, the more he’ll feign an interest in all things Christian. Well, judging by what we’re seeing in the press today, […]

Posted in Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Face in the Crowd, collusion, con man, Donald Trump, energy, evangelical, fracking, fundamentalist religion, Hillary Clinton, impeachment, Lonesome Rhodes, morons, oil, Pat Robertson, prayer, praying, religion, renewable energy, Robert Mueller, Russia, Vladimir Putin | 36 Comments

On the optimism and pity of the non-Americans passing us by

By Mark | February 27, 2012

My friend Pete and I eat lunch together a few times a month. Pete, who’s an academic, tells me of his travels to fascinating places like Malawi and Sweden, where he’s either conducting field research on the spread of parasitic diseases, or sharing his findings with leaders in the field of world health, and I […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged American flag lapel pins, back pain, best places to live, Canada, Department of Education, education reform, environmental protection, Gini coefficient, growth, immigration, income inequality, infant mortality, investing in the future, life expectancy, Malawi, Mitt Romney, neo-feudalism, no child left behind, optimism, parasites, Pete Larson, Presidential politics, public education, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Stockholm, Sweden, tax the rich, teaching for the test, the future of American cities, The Greatest Canadian, the state of the world, Tim Hortons, Tommy Douglas, Toronto, urban development, Vancouver, wind power | 14 Comments

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The United States, absent on climate

Keep right on pretending to pray, but not even God himself can save you now, Donald Trump

On the optimism and pity of the non-Americans passing us by

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