Published

10 months ago

May 22, 2025

Alice Rush

Yes, there are people who know Norway as the country where “the sun never sets.” And that is true of the northern part of the country in mid-summer.

However, most people with elementary school educations understand that all regions of the world at extreme latitudes are just as dark in their winters as they are sun-lit in their summers.

I recently met a guy from northern Norway (300 miles above the arctic circle) who mentioned that he has 67 days of complete darkness in winter, which as anyone with any sense would grant, is disconcerting.

But how much worse is it than his neighbors’ mowing their lawns at 2:30 AM in the summer?

Those at Extreme Latitudes Face Challenges

Renewable Energy

Banning Drag Queens from High Schools

Published

9 hours ago

March 30, 2026

Alice Rush

Prioritizing the relative importance of addressing America’s social woes is, to be sure, an inexact science.

Our war vets are living on the streets, dying of preventable diseases. We may never another free and fair election. Clean energy, which was once making significant progress in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, is being shot to ribbons by the current presidential administration.

But goddamn it! We need to start solving problems that don’t exist, like drag queens in our schools.

Banning Drag Queens from High Schools

Renewable Energy

OMG! College Students Are Protesting??

Published

14 hours ago

March 29, 2026

Alice Rush

College students have been protesting en masse against U.S. aggression abroad and suppression of human rights domestically since the 1960s. These institutions and their students cite “free speech,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment, as the basis for this basic American right.

Now, with the stupidification (my word) of this nation, this has suddenly become controversial.