• Jim Thompson 19 July 2022

    We have not tamed electricity

    In the 1980s, I read of the interview of a long-lived thespian who had recently died. The interviewer asked him what the most astounding change in the theater was in his lifetime. Without missing a beat, he said, “electricity.” Now society has accused the generation of electricity for causing climate change and proposes to fix that problem with beer-can-esque generating devices covering once fertile farm fields. It never ends.
  • Jim Thompson 12 July 2022
    A cheap life
    Over the last 108 years, humankind has developed the attitude that life is very cheap. I pick 108 years, for that takes us back to the summer of 1914, when, right about now in that year, the Great War, later called World War I, was just about to start.
  • Jim Thompson 5 July 2022
    Assessing the state of the union
    We are in delicate times, folks. A little slip one way or another in a myriad of important categories can cause significant problems. I am not reminded of the Jimmy Carter era of the 1970s, but, sadly, the 1930s.
  • Jim Thompson 28 June 2022
    Contemporary events and the Constitution in light of recent rulings from the Supreme Court
    It has been a momentous term at the U.S. Supreme Court. It seems that the closer we have gotten to the end of the term (usually the end of June), the more momentous it has become.
  • Jim Thompson 21 June 2022
    Let the unbelievers participate in equity
    Equity vs. Equality. Per Google: “Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.” In other words, communism.
  • Jim Thompson 12 June 2022
    Janet Yellen should resign – and more
    Should Janet Yellen resign? Absolutely – and she should be followed by a parade of others who make a joke of the serious jobs needing done in Washington. Their bridges have fallen down.
  • Jim Thompson 7 June 2022
    Conclusion: It is just becoming visible
    The progressive liberals have almost pulled off stealing the United States. While we still have elections, we must be certain that we elect people who love this country and are not out to extract its good for their personal benefit or the benefit of their malevolent ideas.
  • Jim Thompson 27 May 2022
    Society’s degraded morals and civility
    These issues are not about guns nor forceps; they are about society’s degraded morals and civility. And they are more (uncomfortably) related to each other than most dare to think.
  • Jim Thompson 23 May 2022
    True bipartisan cooperation
    Doing some research last week, I came across a remarkable piece of history I either didn’t know or had forgotten (sometimes it is hard to tell these days). It is worth sharing. In 1947, President Harry Truman appointed the Hoover Commission. The Hoover Commission was headed by former President Herbert Hoover – a Republican – who had lost the election of 1932 to Franklin Roosevelt, Truman’s predecessor.
  • Jim Thompson 16 May 2022
    Dr. Slouchi explains black hole at the center of the Milky Way
    At the conclusion of the press conference, the administration praised the work of Dr. Slouchi and IGAG, and reported, “Now you know why we have seemed to behave so strangely for the last year and a half. We were looking out for you and protecting you from worry.”
  • Jim Thompson 11 May 2022
    Ever try to reason with someone suffering from hysteria?
    Have you ever try to reason with someone suffering from hysteria? It is impossible, isn’t it?
  • Jim Thompson 4 May 2022
    Some serious stuff
    When I was 18, like many of that age, I wanted the modern toys. That meant having a good job, which meant going to college. I did it and joined the rat race. Now, you don’t know you are joining the rat race, it kind of sneaks up on you until you are caught. It is like drugs.
  • Jim Thompson 29 April 2022
    Electricity isn’t the only solution
    The first thing we need to understand is that our choice of energy is cost, ease of use, and emotions. Notice that glaringly absent from this list is science. Energy choices have long since left science out of the equation.
  • Jim Thompson 25 April 2022
    Have we reached a tipping point on truth?
    There have been some interesting developments lately that give a faint hope that truth may swing back into fashion on the national and international levels. There is the matter of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer. It is not disinformation; it is a fact, and appropriate legal bodies have finally told us this is so.
  • Jim Thompson 12 April 2022
    Chicken or the egg – a different kind of gerrymandering
    I have been watching the congressional district gerrymandering arguments going on all over the country. It struck me, thinking about that and the housing situation I see around me – we are watching gerrymandering by home construction before our very eyes.
  • Jim Thompson 6 April 2022
    The rocky road of technology development
    The Luddites were famous for destroying steam-powered looms in the period 1811-16 in England. Their destructive actions were driven by their fear of job loss. If steam power made cloth production easier, they would lose some of their jobs, hence their source of sustenance. Today, we laugh at them. But we are no different.
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