Twenty-five years ago this spring, the following words appeared in National Wildlife Magazine (I know because I wrote them): “…scientists now generally agree that the average temperature of the global atmosphere has been increasing for a century, and will likely continue to do so throughout the next…the apparent cause of this temperature increase is human [...]
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Choosing a New Captain for the Titanic
October 9, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Titanic has struck the iceberg and is down at the bow, so we passengers are conducting a feverish election to select a new captain. There are two evenly matched candidates, the incumbent captain, who wears a blue uniform, and the challenger who wears a red one. In [...]
Sunday School: What TV Taught Me on the Sabbath
September 24, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download In the olden times, when the world was young, we would gather around fires and listen to the elders tell us about how the world was made, and how the people came to be the way they are. It was a way of teaching the children, and reminding [...]
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Wal Mart
November 25, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download After a brief flirtation with Occupy Wall Street, the American people returned this week to Occupy Wal Mart, a movement with which they are vastly more comfortable. Notions of closing the gap between the country’s financial overlords and the sinking 99.9 per cent vaporized as it came time [...]
La Niňa: In English, it Means Scapegoat
September 14, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download It was one of those articles that subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge. It appeared on the respected Reuters news service, and began: “The dreaded La Niňa weather anomaly, blamed for both drought and record snowfall in the U.S., has returned and will garner strength during [...]
Irene Trashes Obama’s Polls
August 26, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download President Obama’s approval ratings plummeted this morning on news that a major hurricane was approaching the US east coast. Seven out of ten Americans who watched Fox News srongly disapprove of the President’s handling of hurricanes. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, “The Obama administration has done [...]
Arizonans Protest Haboob Job
July 22, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Twice in a month, Phoenix, Arizona has experienced a rare kind of dust storm so sudden and severe that it caused traffic accidents, disrupted airline operations and generally scared people silly. Not hard to understand: the dust cloud created by the storm surge from a group of thunderstorms [...]
Three Media Home Runs. No, Seriously.
July 13, 2011
The Lamestream (news) Media (thank you, Sarah) don’t get much respect here or anywhere else these days, because they mostly do not deserve any. But now and again, traditional journalism rears its gorgeous head, and uses words and images to reveal and explain the realities of our world in riveting and memorable ways. Typically, such [...]
Capital Punishment for Corporations: Time to Start
June 30, 2011
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that corporations are citizens, their money is speech, and their right to buy politicians with their money is protected by the Constitution. If they are persons, in this respect, then why should their lives not be forfeit when they commit horrific crimes? We kill people, don’t [...]
Come, Apocalypse: Now It’s Peak Coffee
March 10, 2011
Wait a minute. I have accustomed myself to the prospects that, approaching and after the Fall, I will have to give up gasoline, electricity, lettuce in the winter, thermostats, my cell phone, 20-minute showers and even — sob! — the Internet. I can handle that. I can stay home, tend my solar panels, grow my [...]
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