Despotic Foodstuffs
February 3, 2011As the world watches revolutionary unrest spread across a big chunk of the Middle East, one of the most vital and festering problems leading the surge is eating — or not eating. In 1996, The…
As the world watches revolutionary unrest spread across a big chunk of the Middle East, one of the most vital and festering problems leading the surge is eating — or not eating. In 1996, The…
(Illustration found here). This country is in a shotgun-wedding to strange disaster. From Reuters: A victim of last week’s Arizona shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation after threatening…
Where are we? And how do we get there from here? (Illustration found here). As horrendous 2010 A.D. swiftly comes to an end, the state of the planet leaves a lot to be desired. According…
Watching daylight turn into rain, there comes a feeling that what is perceived as reality is just noise to a lot of people, creating a blip in the mojo, a trip in the ether, and…
(Illustration found here). Yesterday from the mouth of the heartless insane — via UPI: U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the incoming House speaker, described a Democratic move Thursday to limit the extension of the Bush tax…
Hope is a dim bulb for “CopenCun” — so nicknamed the UN climate summit which begins Monday in Cancún, Mexico — in that maybe some of the agreements wished-for during last year’s Copenhagen confluence disaster…
“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.” — Round Here, Counting Crows (Illustration found here). This morning for damn sure it’s…
(Illustration found here). Another dire study on the state of nowadays. Although climate change, peak oil and all the assorted ugliness associated with both have been flashed around the news wire for months, if not…
In the short run (one must remember there’s no long run here), the most dangerous and gruesome aspect of last Tuesday’s elections is the asshole defiance of GOPers to climate change — not only are they…
Eye witness to climate change. From ThinkProgress and Minnesota meteorologist Paul Douglas: Yesterday a rapidly intensifying storm, a “bombâ€, spun up directly over the MN Arrowhead, around mid afternoon a central pressure of 953 millibars…