Politics and personal responsibility

Saturday, August 1, 2009

I've long recognized the two-party, one-ideology basis of American politics, and I was calling Barack Obama a neoconservative long before it was popular to recognize him as the Teflon President 2.0. But even I can hardly believe this tidbit from a guy I thought was pretty damned smart: From the I-cannot-believe-this-is-happening camp, Obama is appointing a Monsanto man as food safety czar. Welcome to Farmageddon, land of the free.

Time for a revolution

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money.

Neocon nation, redux

Monday, May 18, 2009

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We cannot use politics as usual to deal with energy decline. Ditto for runaway greenhouse. In other words, there is no viable political solution to deal with either issue.

Feeding at the trough of television

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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Joe Bageant's recent piece, Escape from the Zombie Food Court, is a classic. He clearly and concisely dismisses the notion that our lives are lived in anything resembling freedom. The corporate media and their primary brainwashing device, television, have taken care of that.

Illegitimi non carborundum

Sunday, April 5, 2009

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Teaching? I'm doing the best work of my life. Scholarship? Likewise. Outreach? Ditto. Obviously, it's time for me to move along.

Community, community, community

Monday, March 30, 2009

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As we pass from the industrial age to the post-carbon era, the mantra of real-estate agents comes to mind. But the important factor less "location, location, location" than "community, community, community." The latter can be created in any location. Well, except for those locations the United States bombs into the stone age. It's tough to build community when the U.S. military is carpet-bombing the 'hood.

Are we there yet?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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In a classic case of better late than never, an international panel of scientists has warned that we've passed the global-change tipping point. Actually, in this case, it's not better late than never: it's so late, it might as well be never.

Capitulation draws near

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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I never cease to be amazed by the number of people, on this blog and elsewhere, who believe the supply of oil is infinite, and the similar number who believe we'll innovate, conserve, or organize our way out of our oil addiction. I use "believe" intentionally, because there's no evidence of any thinking going on. If there were is evidence to support the notion we'll get through the year without capitulation of the Dow, please bring it forward, and soon.

Reset

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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We've known this was coming for a long time. Every empire is built on a foundation of sand debt. The Ponzi scheme works for a while but, at some point, the debt we've passed along to future generations must be paid. The alternative is default, which can happen with extreme rapidity. The latter option is increasingly attractive because the current U.S. debt of $10.5 trillion far exceeds the value of all the currency in the world combined with all the gold ever mined from planet Earth. This seems like a problem to me.

Business Party II slithers by Business Party I

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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Damn the torpedoes. It's full steam ahead for the idea of economic growth, even though Obama surely knows the days of economic growth are behind us.

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