Save Money, Save Ukraine, Save Earth
My recent op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Background information about electric cars. More on human-caused climate change.
Author: bklinger
Illustrating the Growth of the Divide on Supreme Court Picks
A chart showing forty years of Senate confirmation votes for Supreme Court justices illustrates the growing divide in America. The path to today’s divisions has a complex history. The First Fights Back in the 1980s, ....
Dangerous & Crazy at 570 kHz
Did you know that Biden was a corrupt traitor selling out the country for his pedophile son? That's what I heard when I tuned into AM radio yesterday afternoon on the way home from campus. ....
Do You Hate Democrats More Than You Hate Putin?
I watched President Biden's State of the Union address this week and the Republican response given by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Biden came out against a number of threats to America. He talked about fighting ....
US Energy Independence
Given the need to isolate Russia, a major exporter of fossil fuels, let’s take a look at US production of fossil fuels in recent decades. The big picture: through three presidential adminstrations, we’ve been producing ....
US Deaths Slightly Worse Than EU
We hear a lot about the inadequacies of the US response to Covid-19 and the unnecessarily high death rate, but how do we compare to other countries? Here, I plot a comparison of Covid deaths, ....
Mommy, Where Do Democracies Come From?
Why Think About the Question? In school we learned about the Growth of Democracy. The ancient Greek city-states invented it, but most societies were too primitive to be governed in this way. It was not ....
Europe: Strategic Snapshot
Comparing Economies With talk of open warfare between Russia and Ukraine lately, now is a good time to look at a strategic snapshot of Europe. The figure shows all the countries of Europe (excluding those ....
Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
The Jan/Feb edition of The Atlantic has a good summary by Barton Gellman of how democracy in the United States is in mortal danger. Since the article is rather long, I summarize it here. [If ....
Nerds in Bed
Usually Girl dives right into the ocean of sleep and it is Boy whose mind wanders in the dark from island to island. One time near the beginning, Girl was the one who couldn’t sleep. ....