American Weekend

A local couple looks forward to a long weekend attending a music festival 120 miles from their mountaintop home.  Man gets up early the day before they plan to depart and drives his econobox diesel import 90 miles closer to the event to set up a tent early (he’s a cautious guy) to reserve a [...]

Think It’s Bad Now?

Enjoy what could well be our last few months of culturally reinforced American insularity and relative plenitude. But at least put this bit of news in your pipe and smoke it in the meantime.  Talk about it with family and friends. Or start digging up your backyard to grow some veggies.
I’m a happy guy despite [...]

Dump the Good Ship Lollipop? Good luck.

People generally like to change, but only because they want to: lose weight, quit smoking, find or lose God,  make or save more money, get sober, or even get drunk. But sometimes people are confronted with change because they have no other choice.  Since this involuntary change taints America’s manifest destiny to do as [...]

Congress invites Al Gore to testify

Al Gore will testify next month on climate change issues. He will be the only witness to appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Gore served on both committees during his House tenure representing a Tennessee district.
How much will this [...]

Hot news you may have missed

» European countries have warmest January on record. Link to article.
» Report to link global warming to humans. (“With 90% certainty”) Link to article.
» Researchers in the United States have calculated that only 1 per cent of all the materials flowing through the domestic economy goes into products which are still being used six months [...]

Why (I Think) We’re Doomed

Take a hard look around. What do you see, really? A world consumed with itself, billions of people whose only principle motivation is to feed their faces and buy stuff to feather their nests. Damn the environmental and political torpedoes, it’s full speed ahead. Business as usual. The corporate makeover of our beautiful world continues [...]

Bundled Up and Toasty at -20F

It was damn cold last night. So cold that ice formed on the window frames of our house, inside. So cold that horizontal icicles began forming wherever outside air managed to seep in around the doors. Have you ever seen horizontal icicles outside of “The Day After Tomorrow”? No? You must live in the temperate [...]