- Conservation is cope
- The futulear
- Honey, we poisoned the kids
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Memorial Day was a little brighter for folks living and working along a newly-reopened 11-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway shut down after the Palisades fire. But the 90-mile trek to Big Sur, which has now been closed for over two years? California regulators still have no idea when it will open. In a long, thoughtful piece on the road’s many and increasing problems, the New York Times blamed “climate change,” rather than what seems to be the slow collapse of Western Civilization (and especially California), which is simply no longer capable of building and maintaining infrastructure our grandparents built and maintained with inferior technology. But setting aside the ‘real reason everything is bad’ (the people we elect, and the policies they enact) it’s worth lingering on the Times’ final thought on the matter: Without people, the coast could be preserved. Ah yes, “conservation.” What did you
think it meant? Essays? Papers?
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Friday, Trump signed executive orders meant to boost the “hot,” “brilliant” nuclear industry, he said from the Oval Office. Designed to ease rules for building reactors (it takes, on average, a decade to get a license), strengthen nuclear supply chains, and direct the federal government to identify public lands for nuclear development, the EOs should help us meet our increasing power demands and wean ourselves off Russia and China for enriched uranium and what not. Meanwhile, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which just passed the House, (depressingly, imho) slashed subsidies for “clean” energy — except nuclear. And hey, let’s just agree to call all this progress. Dems should like nuclear because it’s emissions-free. ‘Pubs like it because it’s a serious, rah rah energy source that’s not woke-coded. I for one like it because it just makes sense. And because I have to believe
that we can build something — anything — once again.
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Honey, we poisoned the kids |
Last week, Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a comprehensive, 68-page report on chronic childhood disease in America. It included the eye-opening statistic that ultraprocessed foods like soda and packaged snacks — directly linked to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses — make up 70% of American children’s daily caloric intake… a horrific figure, and one that explains why every kid in 2025 has the physiognomy of the Rizzler. The report comes on the heels of RFK walking back his pledge to identify the cause of autism by September. Here, a reminder for us all about the importance of setting realistic goals. Ensuring that three quarters of our kids’ diet isn’t literal poison? Good, tangible, noble (and the whole point of having a federal health department). Giving yourself nine months to find a direct correlation between the measles shot and eye contact? Bit of a reach Bobby, but I
love the ambition.
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