Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

The opening video on the website “The Story of Stuff” is amazing. It encapsulates exactly what I’ve been yelling about since my college days, that our current economy is based upon a pipe dream, and is so totally UNSUSTAINABLE that our children will be eating, drinking, and breathing nothing but waste, toxins and pollution, if […]

Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my mind, because it’s so true, […]

Well, the word is finally being bandied about– Recession. And everybody is pointing fingers and coming up with supposed band aids that will stop it in its tracks. The problem is that in many ways the powers that be are looking in the wrong place for both the reasons and the solutions. I’m not debating […]

The Energy Legislation that has been finally hammered out and is due to be pushed through both the Senate and the House is both a success and a failure. It’s about time that Members of Congress realized that just because higher MPG standards for cars might hurt folks in certain voting districts, that overall, for […]

With the alarming reports coming out in Green Niche Media Outlets, it leads me to wonder what in HELL is going on in Mainstream Media with this story. Yeah, Big Media will report that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, though of course they also have to quote one of the neocons slamming green […]

Through my reading of the news the last few months and the headlines that have jumped out at me, one underlying thread has emerged in my mind. The US of A is Broken. And if we don’t fix it, then the future is bleak indeed.
When did the initial Crack in the structure of US society […]

What the HELL are they thinking? The MAJOR PROBLEMS that were exhibited at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and most recently in Japan at Kashiwazaki Kariwa are not going away, but with the BLESSING OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION (why should this not surprise us?) additions to a Nuclear Power Plant have been applied for, and more […]

This is just my speculation, mind you, but I just compared Bin Ladens from different tapes and photos, and though you’d expect some differences due to age or hair dye, and it’s pretty amazing to think that someone running for his life would be vain enough or have time enough to dye his beard, the […]

I couldn’t watch this as it was happening since I’m one of those unusual individuals who threw out the TV years ago. But hey, this stuff is important, so now we have the internet to catch us up in such a way that we don’t have to sit through the commercials. Right?
Actually, there was ONE […]

It’s about time that the Court System grew a set of balls and started forcing government agencies such as the EPA to enforce laws properly, and rolled back changes and exemptions to those laws that the Bush Administration put in place to benefit their supporters. The Supreme Court ruled favor of Environmental Defense, et al. […]