Monthly Archives: February 2018
Extinction news, blah blah
I’ve been slacking again. I haven’t updated my website as I said I would, and I’ve been rehashing other people’s work (thanks Kevin Hester). I bring the usual bad news, and the only comfort in it is that I’m no longer surprised. Apparently, we (by ‘we’ I mean the federal government we fund with our […]
The Myth of 2C Being Safe and Achievable
Originally posted on Kevin Hester:
At every twist and turn in our Runaway Abrupt Climate Change fiasco we have been lied to by the powers that be that they were acting and had the situation under control. Nothing could be further from the truth. William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale was the first corporate shrill to…
Do-It-Yourself Symbolism
After many months of dirking around, I decided I should do this. Several years ago I blogged about a symbol of near term human extinction. The enviro movement has been trapped by logos and memes that were ‘donor-friendly’–pictures of wolf cubs or frolicking polar bears or even the occasional whale. It was around this time […]
Rebranding culture jamming
I’ve had this blog for almost six years now. I launched it not long after a video of my play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB made a big splash. I had performed the play as part of a theater project for the Occupy Movement titled OCCUPY THE EMPTY SPACE held […]
The Healthcare Crisis, year 46
I have weird things that stick to my memory. It was 1972. I was a teenager in Indian Hills High School and my social studies teacher was talking about the latest article in the Scholastic Reader. It was kind of arcane for high school kids–health insurance, of all things. It was boring and wonky, but […]
Extremely Warm Cyclone Predicted to Drive 50-60 F Above Average Temperatures Across North Pole
Originally posted on robertscribbler:
Our lexicon of what’s considered to be normal weather does not include February days in which temperatures at a North Pole shrouded in 24-hour darkness cross into above freezing ranges. But that’s exactly what some of our more accurate weather models are predicting will happen over the next five days. Another…
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 