Friday roundup
As His Final Move in Office, Jeff Sessions Limits Use of Court Settlements to Reform Rotten Police Departments
I Think I Have Lost the Plot -- When Did AG Jeff Sessions Become a Liberal Icon?
What Causes a Normal Election to Spiral into Tribal Warfare?
Senate Judiciary Committee Report: 45 Interviews, Zero Evidence To Corroborate Claims Against Kavanaugh
China’s president vows to lower tariffs, increase imports amid tensions with US
Harvard's Racist Diversity
Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
Keith Ellison, Farrakhan groupie and go-to Congressman for anti-Israel activists, elected Minnesota AG
Note to Resistance media: The First Amendment wasn’t written to protect a reporter’s right to grandstand in the White House
Devastating wildfire blazes through California town: 'The community of Paradise is destroyed'
Florida Official Overseeing Vote Count Destroyed Ballots, Accused of Not Removing Dead Voters from Rolls
McSally vs. Sinema ballot update: About 9,600 votes separate the candidates, with Sinema in the lead
ABC, NBC Ignore Antifa Mob Assaulting Home of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
Saudi prince MBS tells US evangelicals the world should focus on Iran, not him
Tuesday roundup
Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test Is ‘Useless,’ ‘Inappropriate And Wrong’ Cherokee Nation Official Says
U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud
Saudis said ready to concede writer was slain in botched interrogation
A White Woman Falsely Accused a Black 9-Year-Old Boy of Groping Her
“Surveillance footage disproves her allegations—and reminds everyone not to automatically believe victims.”How An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech That Tracks Almost Every American
The Next Generation Of Democratic Leaders Wants To Move Up, But The Baby Boomers Are In The Way
I don't usually cite BuzzFeed, but this one is dead on.Washington Post: “Double or Triple” Fuel Prices to Solve the Climate Crisis
‘60 Minutes’ Was Outmatched by Trump (Column)
The FBI Doesn’t Want Users To Know Who Hacked Facebook
On Eve of Harvard Bias Trial, Dueling Rallies Show Rifts Among Asian-Americans
More Entrepreneurship Would Help Progressive Causes, But Progressives Do Not Understand It At All
Facebook Slams Independent Voices With Latest Political Purge
Understanding "Brazil’s Donald Trump"
Wind & Sun
The down side to wind power
““As the world begins its large-scale transition toward low-carbon energy sources, it is vital that the pros and cons of each type are well understood and the environmental impacts of renewable energy, small as they may be in comparison to coal and gas, are considered.
In two papers — published today in the journals Environmental Research Letters and Joule — Harvard University researchers find that the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius.””
— Leah Burrows
Remember, the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine. This means that wind power and solar power are at best supplemental power sources. There has to be something else to provide baseline power.
Given that, we also need to acknowledge the costs of power sources.