Why do we who want equality have to explain this every dang day? — Loving one another among misogynists and man-haters Men love women, and women love men. It is also true that men love men and women love women, but that is another article for another time and place. Every day, more men murder women than women murder men. Every day, more men rape women than women rape men. …

Coastal homes, Insurance, Immigration, The Poor, and More — Roaring Rivers Formerly Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers Florida flooded with fools We have to keep rebuilding Florida. We have to keep repairing flooded gulf states. You know, the ones who got rich by enabling the climate crisis that is upon us. Oil states. Exploding Oil rigs, spill states, shiny new lease to drill states, and inundated states lined up and ready…

Are these 200 people going to melt like their tech optimist dreams? — Today, many are cold, but few are frozen The dream of Cryonics seems frozen in time There are still approximately 200 human bodies in The Scottsdale Arizona facility, in metallic Dewars, in a bland building, along the edge of the Sonoran Desert. A very small village of people, then, awaits the day when future scientists have the technology…

Maybe DART, Jay Dub, and Do-Overs Will Give Us Time to Save Our New World Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog, VUSOB, is now ROARING RIVERS, blog by Christyl Rivers DART Nudged An Asteroid Yesterday, were you moved? In order to deflect the future far-off asteroids, (which even now, still hurl toward the Earth), NASA, ESA, and all international space technicians of Earth cooperated to impact Dimorphos, a small asteroid.

Get yourself some durable, woven baskets and start a trend. — The basket of rewardable(s) Handed down in my family, is a rectangular rattan basket that is over seventy years old. It is far more sturdy than any plastic bag. It is more durable and reusable than paper. It will never take as much water to produce as 100% cotton, or worse, petroleum by-product fabric. …

Stick with me, it will all become clear, bird-brains — Roaring Rivers: Formerly Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog Fascist birds of a feather flock together We woke up to the sad news that Italy is returning, ever so rant-ingly, to Fascism and inhuman rights. That is, Meloni, the new Italian dictator, wants to take away women’s rights, and gender pronouns, deny any help to immigrants and refugees, keep the race “pure,” limit contraception and birth…

Asking questions about the nature of evolving social justice and humanity — Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog, VUSOB, is now ROARING RIVERS Social Evolution may have its own “natural selection” My latest musing is about all these videos and articles about the nature of “free will.” To summarize quite quickly, some neuroscientists, thinkers, pundits, and even some just plain weirdos, assert that there is no such thing as free will.

Watch SNL and tell me what has changed — Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog, VUSOB, is now ROARING RIVERS The Good Ship SNL As Saturday Night Live approaches its half-century mark of making us spit our soda out of our nostrils, let’s reflect on all the people who have come and gone. We all grew up with SNL, and the show has gone from very funny, to very not-so-funny, many times. It has…

See who is being treated as tools, then see your humanity, and theirs — If we see one another, we can act humanely Too many articles point out that because humankind is killing one another and our host planet, we’re kinda dumb. We morons need to get a clue; it’s become a meme or trope. Yet, I think the best and brightest, the billionaires who run the show and rule the roost are…