Month April 2008

World Bank climate profiteering

How exactly, does this work, you ask? Quite simply: The Bank finances a fossil fuel project, involving oil, natural gas, or coal, in Poor Country A. Rich Country B asks the Bank to help arrange carbon credits so Country B…

The Freeway Blogger

He’s right. If one person in every city put up as many antiwar signs as he does, you couldn’t drive anywhere without seeing one. Tip. Lefti.

Bitterness

Of course people are bitter (although I would widen it to include almost all of America outside the the top couple of percent of income earners). The only thing that bugs me is the assumption that this bitterness is misplaced…

California here we come…

500 miles north of where we started from… Sue and I moved from L..A. to Connecticut, near where I grew up, in Feb. 2007. For a variety of reasons, we’d been thinking of selling our current house and renting. Then,…