Published

2 years ago

March 20, 2024

Alice Rush

Retired news journalist Dan Rather notes: Momentum appears to have moved in the direction of Biden/Harris. But with the election still months away, we need to remind ourselves that everyone who cares about the country needs to pay attention and get involved.

I would say that the momentum is shifting away from Trump, though, of course, these are equivalent statements.

My sense is that anyone who believes that that Biden has performed admirably in terms of the economy, gun control, renewable energy, banking regulation, drug prices, etc. has long since come to that realization.

By contrast, the steady drumbeat about Trump and his crimes seems to slowly eroding his support. So what if these are, in fact, deplorable in the character? They’re nonetheless human beings, and their behavior is therefore, at some level, predictable. Some of them are getting sick of the Big Lie and hearing the utter crap concerning their hero’s persecution by the Justice Department, the Deep State, whatever other hobgoblins are pestering the former president.

Warning from Dan Rather re: Trump

Renewable Energy

Wrong State

Published

7 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

Minnesota is home to intelligent, well-educated people whose approval of Trump is lower than that of toenail fungus.

If Lindell wants to lead a state, he needs to choose one at least 800 miles away. Oklahoma?

He may also want to consider that Trump is easily the most detested person in this nation.

Wrong State

Renewable Energy

The Existence of God

Published

8 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion. No one knows how the universe got here.

The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics. How did all this orderliness get there 13.87 billion years ago? No one knows. This is an issue in cosmology which is quite likely to outlast human civilization on this planet.

I’m an atheist for a few reasons, one of which is that saying that God created the universe doesn’t get us any closer to an understanding of the cosmos, if only because it raises the question: Who made God?

More to the point, there are hundreds of moral reasons to disbelieve in God. Each year, 9 million children will die unbaptized on this planet before their fifth birthdays. In the bible, we learn that God punishes them all with an eternity of torture in hell. To what sort of weirdo does this make sense?