Climate Change in the Oregon High Desert

Ten Bears on “The climate change movement is dead. Al Gore killed it” (promoted from the comments)

Sixty-five degrees today on The High Desert, a four thousand feet above sea-level and but a metaphoric stones’ throw from what were once prolific glaciers close enough to the forty-fifth parallel to call it half way to [...]

The Meth Project

Two years after launching the Meth Project in Montana, adult Meth use has declined by 72% and Meth-related crime has decreased 62%

They did this by mass advertising and most importantly, by listening to what teenagers told them.

Our first campaign focused on the impact Meth has on the individual—the user. Our latest [...]

Cleantech and renewable energy links

First Solar joins Desertec Initiative, a gigantic solar and wind power project in the Sahara to power Africa and Europe.

Comprehensive article on LEDs.

Overview of geothermal energy.

Solar water heaters.

Microbes that eat pollution.

Energy-generating self-heating roadway.

The Great Catholic Cover-Up

Hitchens:The pope’s entire career has the stench of evil about it.

In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of his confessor. [...]

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The climate change movement is dead. Al Gore killed it

From The BreakThrough Institute, a progressive environmental think tank that thankfully does not walk the now-crumbling mainstream path of climate change politics.

One of the country’s most respected liberal foreign policy voices, Walter Russell Mead, blames Al Gore for the magical climate thinking that led to the contrivance and ultimate failure of Copenhagen

Here’s some [...]

Why the CDO market melted down

Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart wrote a paper while a student at Harvard that Michael Lewis used as inspiration for his new book, The Big Short. Yes, she’s that good.

Clusterstock:

We read through it, and what’s great about it is the clear-eyed illustration of how the CDO market metastasized and turned into such an out-of-control monster.

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Does assassination promote democracy?

Yes. Seems like whacking people may be a great way to promote freedom!

[Quoting from an article] “We find that, on average, successful assassinations of autocrats produce sustained moves toward democracy.”

What a way to dive head first into ethical dilemma territory…

Gavin Newsom vying for Lieutenant Governor

(From my latest article for CAIVN)

Current Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom has announced he is running for Lieutenant Governor. He grew up in Larkspur and became a star high school basketball player not, says a friend, because of his innate skills but because he worked so hard at it. This may say [...]

Vatican completes probe of disgraced Legion of Christ order

How disgraced? Its founder and leader, Rev. Marcial Maciel, fathered multiple children, molested seminarians and children, plagarized a book, and was accused of financial misconduct and drug abuse. What a guy. Even with that, it took decades to remove him. In 2005 Cardinal Ratizger referred to Maciel as “filth” and when he became Pope in [...]