Like many of y'all, I read a fair number of Lefty websites

[NNadir]

79. Over in the E&E forum I frequent, the word "BREAKTHROUGH!!!" has been used for years.

Years ago 90% of the time it followed the word "SOLAR," and still does although less frequently.

Now - in what I personally regard as fossil fuel greenwashing possibly funded by the fossil fuel industry - "SOLAR" is often replace by "HYDROGEN."

This really isn't all that new but over time one knows what's coming just by famiarity with the source, which may be a particular DU poster or a particular website in the link. It is annoying but after a few clicks on gets a sense of what to ignore.

We all want to be heard, and I try to be generous and tolerant of hyperbole to the extent I can be.

We live in times where one needs increasingly to sift through a lot of chaff to find grain.

To be perfectly honest, I find myself wishing that the clickbait were true. I certainly wish all of the clickbait about the ultimate inevitable triumph of Hillary/Kamala had been true.

The value of growing old is the erosion of one's credulity. I have spent my life trying to develop critical thinking, while understanding that sometimes I fail at the effort.

My wife sometimes asks me to do political soothsaying. If she presses me, I tell her to remember I predicted a Kerry landslide.