by Rich Herschlag We have never known more about others and less about ourselves. How bad did this decade suck? Well, let’s put it this way. The damn thing never even got […]
Holiday gifts that make a difference: Good Gifts and Farm Africa
One of the things we have done in Christmases past is to check out the Good Gifts catalog here in the UK. And it turns out that you can do this online […]
Democracy & Elitism 2: performance elitism vs privilege elitism, and why the difference matters
Part 2 in a series. “Elite” hasn’t always been an epithet. In fact, if we consider what the dictionary has to say about it, it still signifies something potentially worthy. Potentially. For […]
Democracy & Elitism: an introduction to the American false consciousness
Part 1 in a series. Is there a more radioactive word in American politics today than elitist? Admit it – you saw the word and had an instinctive negative reaction, didn’t you? […]
Newspaper circulation falls again: Expect more cuts
If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a […]
Insuring the world against climate disruption (Blog Action Day)
Imagine that in a few years you wake up to news reports on the radio that your town is under a flash flood watch. The ground has been so baked by the […]
Waste not want not (Blog Action Day)
I have no doubt that the climate is changing, nor that it will continue to change. It seems reasonably well established that the Earth has gone through extreme climate swings in the […]
We're all porn stars now, thanks to airport security
“Rodney Deegen was surprised alone in his security booth where he was pleasuring himself while staring at ghost-like images of naked children. He was arrested immediately. Investigators suspect that he may have […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too
Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too EPA Office of Inspector General finds standard gases not so standard after all Driest years in Pacific Northwest drier than expected Northeast Passage opened this year […]
Review: Columbine by Dave Cullen
It’s one of those days of American history that lives in infamy: April 20, 1999, the day Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in […]
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