Some good, some ridiculous...
Farming
Here's documentation--although it's an obnoxious site, with ads that will make you want to boycott products you never even heard of before--that going chemical-free can pay off for farmers: Travis Heide claims he stopped poisoning 7,000 acres and, after the inevitable lean years, has now expanded to 40,000 acres of True Green farmland.
The greedheads are frightened by this kind of thing. Thus we see:
Insanity, of course. Green plants are good for the planet and reduce warming. Pavement and densely populated space are the scenes of severe warming effects, and should generally be opposed as actually being bad for the planet. Don't let greedheads pull any polyester over your eyes, Gentle Readers.
Marketing
In their desperation to recover from last year's Bud Lite marketing mistake, Anheuser-Busch has appealed to the Trump family for a bit of an image boost. Donald Trump came through with a post on that Orwellian-named web site of his, quoting Anheuser-Busch's press release about how many veterans they employ and yadda yadda.
Yes. More companies should be fawning on Republicans, about now. Apologies are in order from those who've tried to blame Trump for the riot that he tried to warn his fans to get out of, but CENSORSHIP interfered. Apologies are in order from anyone who's failed to denounce censorship and media bias. News media especially need to be firing anyone who's participated in the "any fiscally conservative policy = fascism and probably racism too" smear campaign, affirming that all reporting by humans will always be somewhat biased but requiring their reportage at least to try to sound impartial, and denouncing the livin' daylights out of censorship and anyone who wants it. (It is probably too late to save newspapers that participated in the "Trusted News Initiative." The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the BBC should be trying to place those of their staff who can prove opposition to censorship in the news media that will replace them.)
But although jokes about the Mulvaney ads are out of date and we should all have found fresh material for comedy by now, I'm afraid...a lot of people just plain hate beer. And, of the ones who don't, many just plain hate "lite" beer.
Two major ethnic groups, which together form the overwhelming majority in my town, share one dominant gene for alcohol intolerance that has been deliberately used against them. During my lifetime I've seen Irish-American genetic alcoholics discriminated against by employers participating in an alcohol-drinking culture that needs to die. Sorry, Mr. Second Generation German-American Ex-President...there is probably more blood in the average turnip than there is sympathy at this web site for beer companies.
Even, and perhaps especially, whichever company is now advertising "Conservative Dads' 'Right' Beer."
The position of this web site is that civilized people are good company while sober, and if they drink anything for any effect beyond hydration, it's caffeine. Therefore the most "adult" beverage is black coffee and the most "festive" beverage is soda pop.
Politics (Election 2024)
John Hawkins lists the seven advantages D's have over R's:
R's can, of course, do things about all of them. R's can, for instance, be less judgmental about single people, and even address some of young unmarried people's actual concerns, such as being able to earn a college degree while also paying their own rent. If young unmarried people wanted handouts, many of them would be living in their parents' homes. They're not. They don't. They want their own apartments, their own careers, and probably their own mates and young in due time--if adult society gives them a chance to pay off their student loans while still fertile. R's have things to say to that felt need for independence if R's are willing to put their money, and their backs, where their mouths are.
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