Dr Wingnut

Category: Social/Environmental

  • Cottage Industry

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    The $400 clue in the category, “The Second Millennium” on Jeopardy! yesterday, 2020-12-03, was: “Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked from home in what’s called this kind of house industry.” The COVID-19 pandemic is really making WFH (Work from Home) the predominant cottage industry of the 21st Century.

  • Equality vs Equity

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    League of American Bicyclists, 2019 Winter

  • Give pees a chance

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    Officials in Amsterdam have installed 12 hemp-filled urinals around the city’s notorious red-light district in an attempt to control if not eliminate late-night public urination, or “wild peeing.”  The boxes, called GreenPees, resemble planters, according to CNN, and the hemp filters inside turn urine into an organic fertilizer and water that feed the plantings on…

  • Cleveland Indians

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    I was so happy to see that Major League Baseball has finally grown a spine and told the Cleveland Indians that they need to get rid of their racist mascot, Chief Wahoo.  There was an art exhibition in 2000 at the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies that I remembered seeing covered in the newspaper…

  • He had it all…

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    I talked to a homeless man this morning and asked him how he ended up this way.He said, “Up until last week, I still had it all.  I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had HDTV and Internet, and I went to the…

  • Ten things you (probably) do that your co-workers hate

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    Being the drama queenDo you tend to get too upset or even angry over trivial things?  No one likes to have a drama queen or king around.  If you make a big deal of all sorts of things and your mood shifts drastically from day to day, be sure your co-workers hate this about you.Over-sharing…

  • Mother

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    Teach your children what we have taught our children — that the earth is our mother.  Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.  If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.Chief Seattle