Pump Sump
January 26, 2012Yesterday after work, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep Comanche, now back up at $3.89 a gallon for regular — up three cents since the last time we visited the…
Category Archives: Environment
Disconcerting Circumstance
January 21, 2012(Illustration found here). In the US today, apparently all collective eyes were glued to South Carolina where intelligence-deficit Republicans held their primary to select from among a short-list of bullshitters a warm body to run…
Harsh Realities vs ‘Optimism Bias’
January 19, 2012Meanwhile, beyond the SOPA blackout/back-peddle, and the nasty, bitch-slapping noise in South Carolina from GOP presidential nit-twits vying for richest asshole, there’s the non-stop horror of climate change. Climate what? Last year, despite all kinds…
Iowa Hothouse
January 4, 2012The horror of Iowa: No wobbling of that sort from Santorum — he’s an out-and-out denier. “There is no such thing as global warming,” he told a smiling Glenn Beck on Fox News in June…
‘Bluster’ — Oil and Water Mix
December 29, 2011A few days ago, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, and this time the pump price had dropped six cents since the last gas-station visit, down to $3.83 a gallon…
Tea Cup Turbulence
December 27, 2011Climate change is corrupting Bangladesh tea — the low-lying nation has a great tea growing industry, but the warming temperatures with less rain not only stumps growth, but can alter the flavor. From Aljazeera English…
Oil Spoils the Bright
December 12, 2011A record — US peoples spent $448 billion on gasoline since the beginning of this year, $100 billion more than 2010, which in turn, puts OPEC on pace to top $1 trillion in net oil…
Good-bye Tomorrow
December 8, 2011Climate change ain’t for bullshitters. And no crap talk — President Obama’s video visit to the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, citing the late Nobel peace prize winner and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai:…
‘Day of Infamy’ — Climate Change Calling Card
December 7, 2011Today 70 years ago one of the landmark events of world history — the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor — a horror-hole episode leading to a massive worldwide war which…
Now or Later — The Clock Ticks Loudly
December 6, 2011US peoples should hide in great-confused and frightful shame. In facing the greatest threat to humanity, maybe in all of recorded history, Americans still can’t decide whether they should give a shit or not on…