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Life in the Plastocene: Solutions to the Plastics Plague
There was life before plastics. Is it realistic to hope there will be life after them?
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But Wait, Folks, There’s More: Anti-Vaxxers and Snake Oilers Are a Team
Are you buying what the team's selling? You could pay for it in more ways than one.
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Contrived Anti-Vaxxer “Exposé” on WhoWhatWhy Writer Reveals Movement Strategy
I could see right away that it was some kind of hit piece
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March 2024

What a Week! Another Variety Show of Horrors.
A ship wrecks a bridge, a con man hawks a Bible, a Kennedy scores some cash…
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Bobby, Think It Over: Your Candidacy May Doom Democracy
Do the right thing; make your family and forebears proud.
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What if the Moscow Attack Wasn't ISIS? Nor Ukraine? Breaking News Analysis
BREAKING NEWS
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We’ve Become Plastic!
People from other planets viewing our Earth might get the impression that it’s made entirely of plastic. Here are some scary specifics.
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What a Week!
And we haven’t even reached the Ides of March yet. What next?
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Super Bowl ads and the American Dream. A bowl full of junk?
There seems to be a correlation between unhealthy diet, dismissal of science, belief in wacky theories, and susceptibility to manipulation
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February 2024

Investigating Your Vaccine Concerns
Some think I’ve lost my ability to see “what’s really going on.”
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Ask Alice: What’s America’s Right Wing Doing in Putin’s Bed?
I never thought I would see the day when the American Right bedded down with a murderous Moscow-based dictator.
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Democrats: Damned If They Do and Damned If They Don’t
The US-Mexico border is a political booby trap, which is why MAGA wants to keep it open.
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