The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Psychos in Charge of Sinking USS America 2.0 Only the blackest of hearts need apply Donald Jeffries The old line about “truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne” comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It’s probably fitting that we’ve closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the largest insane asylum the world has ever seen. Now, I understand that, being mere peasants and all, we don’t have the pleasure of seeing who our  real  rulers are. So I can only assess the leaders we  can  see, and they are the most pathetic lot imaginable. Not only is America 2.0 the antithesis of a meritocracy, we have accomplished the very difficult feat of elevating the wrong people into the wrong jobs in all the wrong places. There is no bright spot in this decaying civilization, not even a single small district somewhere, with decent and honorable people in charge. Not...

  They Want to Stop Lightning Now The real danger isn’t climate. It’s the belief we can control nature. There is a point where science stops asking questions and starts issuing commands. We are there. A  Canadian startup  now claims it can suppress lightning to prevent wildfires. The logic is simple and increasingly familiar. Lightning ignites fires. Fires release carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide contributes to climate change. Therefore, lightning itself has become a problem to solve. But that conclusion only makes sense if you accept a much deeper assumption. That natural systems are errors. And that we are capable of correcting them. The Real Shift No One Is Talking About This is not about lightning. It is about a fundamental shift in how nature is being framed. Natural processes are no longer something to understand. They are something to control. Fire is no longer an ecological process. It is an emissions source. Lightning is no longer atmospheric physics. It is a liabi...