Random Politics & Religion #38: The 38th One

Maybe thoughts and prayers will help, I heard it solves all problems.

Sunlight, moving air, falling water. Already coal cannot compete with natural gas let alone renewables.

In the short term fossil fuel powerplants produce less emissions than internal combustion engines and are cheaper than gasoline or diesel.

Bolton probably made the mistake of trying to teach Trump something.

Trump made a good decision again today, fired Bolton.

Just when you think they can't get any worse, CNN gets called out by the CIA for completely falsifying facts in order to make Trump look bad.

happy anniversary of the time Ted Cruz liked a stepmom pornclip tweet on 9/11

Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities
WaPo - paywall

Are we talking concentration camps or reeducation camps?

Trump's reported California homeless takeover bewilders state, local leaders
Politico - but I liked the WaPo"s headline better.

Wait, what was "flipped" last night?

Wait, what was "flipped" last night?

Thought you'd never ask. I flipped my 1980 Topps rc of Ricky Henderson on ebay last night and made a $0.60 profit! Thanks for asking!

You got hosed.

If a Democrat says something then it must be true.

It’s time to talk about a troubling trend in how we handle our national discourse: the current political landscape is full of lies, half-truths, and facts I don't like, but the average person only ever consumes half of that. Thanks to people being ever more partisan in their news consumption, most people are only exposed to one distorted version of reality, completely missing out on an equally ludicrous alternative version of events.

This has to end. People need to broaden the propaganda they listen to and be exposed to all the incorrect ways of looking at an issue. Listening to only one set of lies is part of what leads to all the destructive anger in our politics, but if people only opened up and really listened to all falsehoods, they could replace that anger with much healthier confusion.

And maybe, just maybe, people might stumble onto something real. Two half-truths added together equals a whole truth. That’s just math.