350 eco-collapse jokes by 10/10/10 -- are you kidding?
When we heard about 350.org's 10/10/10 project a couple of months ago, we struggled to find one that was appropriate to our own project. Last week we had an epiphany, and we've launched an 11th-hour...
View ArticleToday the rain fell
Today the rain fell and the small barn roof was the timpani in the symphony of the rain Today the rain fell and the big barn roof thrummed like a thousand marching hobnail boots.
View ArticlePolitics: The Fashion Section (humor)
This season's in thing? Aggressive stance! It's not just a win, with extra-wide shoulders, very specific codpieces, and bald-man big-package whiteness, it's also causing conflagration on the catwalks....
View ArticleDDOS of WikiLeaks indicative of vast US hack
Correct me if I'm wrong, please. DDOS -- Distributed Denial of Service -- is what's been hammering WikiLeaks the last couple of days. That's when kajillions of requests for a server's webpage bombard a...
View Article"everything we do from now on matters."
As I've been doing daily for more than three years, this morning I was collecting news items documenting the ongoing environmental collapse (and adding punchlines) for the site I coedit. I ran across a...
View ArticleAnother chance with revolution
I watched -- and worked in the aftermath of -- the collapse of the Soviet empire in '89, '90, 91. I tried to encourage, at the time, through my tenuous links in politics and policy, a dramatic response...
View ArticleA Modest Environmental Proposal
In light of the long-term environmental consequences of fossil energy extraction (whether that be hydraulic fracturing, tar sands, mountaintop mining, offshore drilling), and the cost of protecting...
View Articledot-connecting, then and now
As we close in on the 10th anniversary of our national, idiotic swerve into terror incognita, a land where fear was the currency used to buy off rationality, I'm reminded of the dots that weren't...
View ArticleSo very Cosmopolitan
As an earnest and o-so-serious investigator of the ongoing environmental collapse, noted by few and bemoaned by only-a-few-more, I've recently realized that confronting the converging emergencies of...
View ArticleThanks, Hillary
I have little doubt that Hillary Clinton was fundamentally involved in the Saudi Arabian announcement today that women will be "allowed" to vote, hold office, and serve on advisory panels:...
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