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When my friends and I were growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, we regarded California as if it were a foreign country–if not another planet.  The widespread speculation was that California was one big movie/TV studio, that had beaches for the thousands of blond-haired surfers who spoke some extremely hip language, and had adoring, bikini-clad girls clinging to them.

Yet living here soon taught me that, though this perception of the Golden State was in some measure true for the cities and towns on the Pacific, a trip 30 – 40 miles inland exposed a culture that wasn’t altogether different than that of Central Pennsylvania, or Central Alabama for that matter.

I bring this up because of the recent announcement (see above) that the University of California, with its 10 campuses, won five Nobel Prizes recently.   UC Santa Barbara alone has 11 Nobel laureates, nine of which are in physics and materials science.  That’s a lot of intelligence floating around in a city whose population is only about 89,000.

Per my point, however, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is about 30 miles inland from Santa Barbara.  Where they have people speaking French and discussing quantum physics, we have saloons and rodeos.

I’m not complaining (too much).  It’s still a great place to live, and if I want to find someone to converse with on the subject of quarks and neutrinos, they’re only a short drive away.

California IS Different, But It’s Not TOO Different

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Examining One of Trump’s “Assassination Attempts”

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It’s weird that no one talks about this anymore (did we talk about it at all?), but how likely is it that the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in which he was supposedly hit in the ear by a round from an AR-15 didn’t leave a scar?  Not even a scratch?

Why can’t some teenage cub reporter follow this down and show that the likelihood of this actually happening is like rolling a six on a die 1000 times in a row?

Examining One of Trump’s “Assassination Attempts”

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Fascism Has Come to America–Or Has It?

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According to Trump’s head of Homeland Security, we, the American people, have two choices: stay silent against ICE agents’ grossly illegal and sometimes lethal violence against innocent people, or face “more bloodshed.”

This is what fascism looks like.

Yet, too many Americans are children or grandchildren of our brave ancestors who risked (or gave) their lives to defeat Hitler. I’m betting against Trump and the despicable people he’s nominated to top positions in his administration.

Fascism Has Come to America–Or Has It?

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World Civility

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While human civilization is far from perfect, most of the world’s people are kind and decent.  Sure, there are rogue countries led by the most horrific dictators imaginable, yet all but one of the developed nations on Earth support their citizens with universal healthcare.

Of all the countries that played in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the United States is the only one that lets its people go through bankruptcies and die of treatable diseases because they can’t afford health insurance.

Civil?

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