The era of Trump irrelevancy has dawned, and too many people are slow to see the light. No matter what Trump has the nerve to do now, none of it is likely to matter much, since the man has so little real nerve. The presidential election is effectively over, and now we’re going through the formalities. So get Trump out of your head! He had no business being there in the first place.

Two important provisos: (1) Keep an eye on what he and his family steal between now and January. The Biden administration should be prepared to try to recover the millions (or billions) of ill-gotten Trump gains from public pockets. (2) And keep an eye on his destructive appointments and policies. For now, he can do whatever any president could do, but all of it (or most) can be easily reversed soon after January 20. The Biden administration has to have the will and the courage to make the undoing quick and thorough.

Start your holiday shopping guilt-free on Black Friday at Simply Living’s annual Gift To Be Simple – a virtual auction of new and gently used items donated by members and supporters that runs Friday, November 27 through Saturday, December 5. The event includes a special screening of the new documentary Kiss the Ground, followed by a panel of local experts and farmers practicing regenerative agriculture in Central Ohio.

Simply Living members are scouring their homes to donate items they no longer need but could be just right for someone else. Real examples: a $100 espresso maker donated because the owner switched to instant coffee; a worm compost maker because the owner preferred a backyard option; a beautiful landscape oil painting that doesn’t quite fit now. One member loves the True Rest Float Spa and donated the “immersion tank” experience so others can enjoy it.

From Ohioans Against Gun Violence

November 16, 2020                              

It is essential to the Biden administration that Democrats control the Senate.

For that to happen Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff must be elected to the U.S. Senate in the run-off in Georgia on January 5, 2021.

In the November 3rd election, Democrats lost one seat Doug Jones in Alabama and won two seats John Hickenlooper in Colorado and Mark Kelly in Arizona. But many Republican Senators won reelection. So, it appeared that Mitch McConnell would remain as Majority Leader of the Senate. That would make it impossible for the Biden administration to rescind many of the draconian laws passed during Trump’s administration and to pass progressive legislation, including that which is so necessary due to the pandemic. If the Democrats were to win one seat in Georgia, Charles Schumer would be Majority Leader. V. P. Kamala Harris would break the ties, since she will be the President of the Senate. If both Warnock and Ossoff win the two Georgia seats, Democrats will have an absolute majority.  

I would like to announce the publication of a new book, in which I have tried to sketch human history, from earliest times until the present, against a cosmic backdrop. The book may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link:

http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/A-History-of-the-Earth-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf

The place of humans in nature

According to modern cosmology, the universe is almost unimaginably vast. It is estimated that there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the observable universe. Of these, many stars have planets on which life is likely to have developed. Thus our earth and its life forms are by no means unique.