In transit (again)
We’re traveling this week. Not quite sure what our Net access will be like, so posting might be a bit random.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month July 2008
Greening the Rust Belt, and more
Alex Steffen of WorldChanging talked with Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing about what kind of heroes we need to deal with the changing times, with climate change and peak oil. Many people will be losing their jobs. Some won’t get new…
Matt Simmons on oil prices
He sees the biggest obstacle stopping us from going to renewables is the mistaken belief that oil prices are temporarily high and will drop. So rather than deal with the problem, we’re going on a witch hunt to see who…
New Yorker Obama cover: “Tasteless and offensive”
This is something you might expect from a hard right slime squad, but not from the supposedly liberal New Yorker. It shows Obama in the Oval Office in Muslim garb with his wife as an AK-totin’ radical with a picture…
Work till you drop
Dropping dead from too much work happens so often in Japan that it has a name, karoshi. While the article notes that those forced to work insane amounts of overtime often aren’t paid in Japan, the same thing happens in…