From this: BMW CEO Oliver Zipse announced that it aims to deliver hydrogen cars as soon as 2025. . Praised be the LORD! 65 years after the hype on hydrogen began, a corporate liar announces the feasibility of fuel-cell driven cars ..read more

From the year I became an entrepreneur in 1984 until I moved into another line of work (environmental sustainability) in 2009, I’m guessing that my company (initially I myself) hired, say, 300 people. My policy was always: if two candidates for a position are roughly equally capable, and one is a white male and the other is a minority, hire the latter over the former. I have always wanted to do my part to make our world a better, more inclusive place to live. The notion that our civilization is falling apart because of anticapitalist wokeism is appealing to hateful white supremacist idiots, bu ..read more

In a recent post, Does Life Have Meaning? I wrote about the plethora of recent social media posts on the supposed meaninglessness of our lives. In addition to the other points I made in the original post, this subject appears to be a “first world problem.”  Think for a moment of those living in areas that are war-torn, impoverished, disease-ridden, or ruled by cruel tyrants.  How many have the bandwidth to concern themselves with the meaning of life and to bemoan its monotony? Yes, as Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” but it’s possible that the over-examined l ..read more

There seems to be a great number of social media posts recently on the subject of the supposed meaninglessness of our lives.  Some people point to what they believe to be an absurd cycle of “eat, work, be entertained, sleep” that repeats itself endlessly until we become infirmed and ultimately die. Personally, I see nothing absurd about any of this.  Sure, our lives have no external meaning; it’s up to each of us to confer meaning to our existences by the choices we make. I used to say that I was “put on Earth” to solve corporate marketing challenges, the same way doctors consider th ..read more

In this day in which so many Americans have completely given up on English grammar, it’s almost weird to see that the sign-maker here correctly used a semicolon to separate two independent clauses.  Kudos. Btw, the message is excellent as well.   ..read more

There are vast differences between the Finnish and American cultures, principally that the Fins care deeply about the well-being of one another.  This is not just talk; as shown at left, they spend their tax revenues in efforts to wipe out social problems. Contrast that with the political ethos in the United States, where one side wants problems (like chaos at the southern border, lousy education, wage stagnation, etc.) to be as horrific as possible, enabling them to blame the other side, so as to ultimately win the upcoming elections.  The lives of the people caught in these miserab ..read more

It’s the 77th birthday of actor and ardent Trump supporter James Woods (pictured here).  Woods’ status as a celebrity, coupled with his belief that Trump is right for America doesn’t make him unique, but it certainly makes him rare. Sure, he’s joined by personalities like Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Jason Aldean, Kelsey Grammer, and Jon Voight.  But, for each one of these, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, who find Trump and the con he’s inflicted on our nation to be utterly repulsive. So let’s ask ourselves: Why are there so few celebrities at the “MAGA end” of the political spectrum ..read more

We sometimes wonder why so few people are jumping from the Trump/MAGA ship. If you’re a congressional Republican, it’s that you know that abandoning Trump means losing your seat. For the huge majority of everyone else, it’s explained in the meme here.  You simply can’t deal with having been used like a garden tool. It’s explained further by what Carl Sagan said below ..read more

The only thing that’s “unnatural” about eating meat has occurred very recently in human history, and that’s factory farming.  When I drive past thousand-acre pastures dotted with happy cows, I don’t have a problem knowing that most of these animals are going to wind up under cellophane in grocery stores, or served up on plates in restaurants. The problem with the industry is that 97% of the beef we Americans consume comes from cows that had miserable lives, simply because it’s cheaper to raise and slaughter animals that have been, since birth, packed together like sardines.   ..read more

Let’s contrast the advice that Pythagoras gave us (at left) with the sensibilities of the MAGA/Trump people. The former suggests that we do our best to keep anger away from our decision-making. The latter wants to see Trump re-elected, specifically so he can exact revenge on all the people who have opposed him since he emerged on the U.S. political scene.  Apparently, some people think this is precisely what America needs at this point in its history.   ..read more