Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
By Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Remarks from the Senator’s weekly climate address. His office notes: “Yesterday afternoon Senator Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to deliver his weekly speech about climate change. It was a speech that had been prepared in advance, and which included a general reference to tornadoes in Oklahoma. Tragically, and unbeknownst to [...]
Yesterday, I wrote Yes, global warming IS giving us bigger, more devastating tornadoes, in response to the horrific devastation in Moore, Oklahoma. And the usual jerks came out, accusing me of everything from being a retard to being a despicable liberal using the bodies of dead children to push my climate change agenda. It would have been [...]
As an insanely huge tornado smashes a path through the former oilfields of Oklahoma, it might be a nice time to remember – yes, climate change and global warming are giving us bigger, badder, and more costly storms. Remember that the next time somebody tells you that dealing with climate change will be too expensive. [...]
By James Howard Kunstler The collective state of mind in the USA these days may be even more peculiar than what went on in Germany in the early 1930s, when the Nazis were freely elected to lead the country and reconstructed the battered national psyche into a superman cult that soon beat a path to [...]
In a huge disappointment to organic food and non-GMO activists, the Supreme Court gave Monsanto a huge victory this morning. There had been some hope that they would re-evaluate the crazy notion that companies can patent life-forms. It is, after all, an idea that would have been laughed at by the founding fathers of this [...]
By James Howard Kunstler Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy — or pretend that it can — it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, John Hilsenrath, and leaks a rumor of policy change. They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets [...]
By David Brin Mars One: why did I volunteer? I believe that a one way Mars mission is a viable-enough idea for some people to consider it, even knowing, as I do, that “one-way” has several possible connotations. On the surface, the claim is that eliminating the huge cost of the return flight will allow instead [...]
By David Brin Grand challenges! It’s an approach to stimulating research and technology that has been around for a while, stretching back to the British longitude prize of the 1700s. Aviation medals and awards spurred rapid advances during the 1920s and 1930s and sparked breakthroughs in human-powered flight in the 1980s and 1990s. One contest helped lead to creation [...]
How out-of-step is Governor Jerry Brown, when it comes to his destructive water polices for the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas? The Sierra Club of California has called on Brown to abandon his position on the construction of twin peripheral tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a policy that would harm [...]
By David Brin Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) and I have both agreed and disagreed about transparency, for years. In his posting, Crime and Privacy, he has opined, for example, that ”Ironically, the more the government clamps down on individual privacy, the more freedom the residents will have. When the government can detect every sort of [...]
 |
 |
