Podcast: Play in new window | Download The explosion that leveled much of the little Texas town of West occurred one day after the Boston Marathon bombing. It killed 15 people, five times the number of dead in Boston. It left a crater 90 feet across and ten feet deep, while the Boston bombs left [...]
Politics
Terrorized US Government Locked Down
April 19, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Cowed by the deployment of IEDs (Improvised Electoral Destabilizers) in several cities, the US Congress shouted “No!” from under its desks this week to a modest adjustment of firearms regulation that 90% of American voters wanted. It was the most brazen demonstration yet of the members’ subservience to [...]
Wait, What? Congress Fixed Flood Insurance?
March 8, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download What were we doing in July? Oh, right, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced he had proof that President Obama’s birth certificate was a fake. And the FBI report on the Joe Paterno thing came out. And they discovered evidence of the Higgs Boson, aka the God Particle. Small wonder [...]
The Tea Party and the Propagation of the Fakes
February 12, 2013
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Everyone knows that the Tea Party was a spontaneous, populist uprising of ordinary Americans who were fed up with taxes and regulation and who, without national leadership or direction, created in 2009 a potent national force dedicated to “taking the country back.” According to a new academic study [...]
Flood Insurance Follies
November 1, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Imagine an insurance program that lost so much money in private hands that the government had to take it over, that the government forces people to buy (Really? Is that constitutional?) and that is $19 billion in debt with no hope of ever achieving solvency. If that sounds [...]
Virginia: The State of Denial, Sinking
August 30, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The rising waters of climate change are lapping at the foundations of Virginia’s second-largest city, and are repeatedly rolling over one of its premier tourist attractions. Norfolk city officials and National Park Service managers on Assateague Island are trying desperately to deal with the rising threat. But they [...]
Can You Say Infrastructure? Now Say Brace for Impact
January 3, 2012
Podcast: Play in new window | Download It was a rare occasion and a good way to start the new year — a major American newspaper gave front-page coverage to a major American problem. This morning’s Washington Post features prominently a story detailing one reason why this country is about to crash: the machinery that [...]
This Space is Occupied: Now What?
December 16, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Our history has seen a lot of rallying cries, from the spine-tingling — “Give me liberty, or give me death!” — to the overly specific — “Fifty-four-forty or fight!” (Give up? A vocal minority wanted to set the US boundary with Canada at 54 degrees, 40 minutes of [...]
From Arab Spring to American Fall
October 10, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The leaves have come off the Arab Spring, and now we see, perhaps, the colors of an American Fall. The people of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria are still poor, still hungry, still imprisoned, tortured and dying despite their revolutions begun this spring. Now, in the fall, in [...]
Omens of Collapse: A Stage and a Fence
August 15, 2011
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Things that are done for show don’t work well, don’t last long, and can hurt a lot of people when, inevitably, they collapse. This lesson was demonstrated anew this past week in two widely separated — and wildly different — places: the Indiana State Fair and the Mexican [...]
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