In the Sweet By-and-By
October 17, 2010The future has been downloaded into just about right now. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs,…
Tag Archives: Environment
Nature Marks the End of the Road
October 16, 2010Global warming (oops, sorry, “global climate disruption”) is indeed cancer, an illness as hypothesized by a recent report most-likely a man-made disease and like the earth’s hurting environment, a product of the industrial age. A new Yale…
Good Crime Stats
October 14, 2010In a tanking US economy, finally a glimmer of an unusual sort. From CBS: The National Crime Victimization study, released Wednesday by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, showed violent and property crime last…
Morning Mourning
October 7, 2010A view of the future as the now: Hungarian sludge worker. (Illustration found here). A dam holding back acres of toxic red sludge from a metals plant in Ajka, located 100 miles southwest of Budapest,…
“Life Back”
September 29, 2010We all remember what’s-his ass, Tony Hayward, whining last spring about this inconvenient oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: “The first thing to say is I’m sorry,†he told reporters, when asked what he…
Coffeehouse Climate and ‘Generation Hot’
September 25, 2010As anyone gifted should know, a cigarette and a cup of coffee is the maximus-a-mode in a perfect remedial coupling — no matter the clock face. And then, take that coupling, couple it with an…
Bad Sun Shining
September 24, 2010Beyond peak oil, climate change, the financial meltdown, peak soil, the GOP’s “Pledge to America,” the death of Eddie Fisher, the population bomb, etc., etc. — what else could possibly disrupt my golden years? From…
Sunrise til Morning
September 15, 2010(Illustration found here). “Dawn“Â by Miss Emily Dickinson When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ‘s time to smooth the hair And get the dimples…
The Day After
September 12, 2010What a complete, horrible mess the US nine years and some 24 hours following the attack on the World Trade Center, an event apparently which has become a turgid line drawn in the sands of…
Canary In Ice
September 5, 2010One of those extremely-dramatic moments, though, executed in easy, slow steps: Scientists studying an Indonesian tropical glacier witnessed first hand life with climate change: The glacier was literally melting under their feet. From NPR (including…