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What Is It Trumpists (aka Republicans) Have Against Human Progress?
Most of what keeps us safe and happy is brought to us by scientific discoveries.
Maybe they are content with just ice. The formation of ice is a pretty cool thing. I have seen it many times in St. Petersburg, Russia, where I used to live. The waters of the great Neva River would seemingly thicken and become syrup-like. Next, a glaze would form over the top. Then, as the wind whipped across the water’s surface, you could almost hear the whispering of the congealing water, bonding, uniting unseen to form a vast, impenetrable tabletop.
Ice is a wonderful thing, and we see so little of it these days. Nonetheless, as the old joke goes, someone’s sweet little grandma came up with a recipe for making it at home, and so the ice cube was invented (as the joke goes, when she died, she took the recipe with her, and so no one had any more ice cubes for their drinks). Yes, it’s a pretty funny joke, and it refers to a particular nationality that Americans have, for some reason, deemed the least intelligent — I won’t say which one, but you can guess.
While the ice cube might not be the peak of humankind’s scientific discoveries, the refrigeration systems that cool “ice boxes,” and now homes of completely unsustainable and unnecessary size to…
