Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
My computer virus problem (short take)
Hi! did ya miss me? Sometime around Thanksgiving, I did a crazy nutty thing. I used my Windows 8 laptop to download a piece of freeware that would allow me to convert sound files from .wav to .mp3. This was a task that I was undertaking for my radio gig, if you must know. The […]
The Ferguson Masterpost: How To Argue Eloquently & Back Yourself Up With Facts
I’ve been ruminating on a similar essay, but this one does it better. So read it!
Things you should do next week
I’ve been invited to a number of cool events that all step off next week. I don’t know if I can get to them (because the economy is recovering), but maybe you can. The events support important causes and you can see some cool people performing. Pardon me for practicing press release journalism, but I think […]
Unemployment ticks down in October
The BLS figures are in today–employment ticked down by a tenth of a percent last month to 5.8%. Total jobs added was approximately 214,000. There were also upward adjustments on previous months’ hiring. Huzzah. Would such a report have been enough to help Obama and the Democrats in last week’s elections had it come out a […]
Tuesday’s election results–why the surprise?
On Election Day, I got a job as a Brooklyn, NY poll worker, which was fortuitous. I was far too busy telling voters how to insert their ballots into the scanner to keep up with developments in the electoral auto da fe that hit most of the US. Some of the news was really shocking–I […]
The whole Ebola thing
I’ve been following the news about Ebola for about the past week or so. There’s much mis-information flying about. And (contrary to the assurances from Mayor De Blasio and friends), we are clearly not ready to face this in New York. Friday’s news photos of NYPD members dumping Ebola-exposed hazmat suits from Dr. Spencer’s apartment […]
You thought I was dead
Apologies for taking a hiatus. I have two or three posts waiting final touches. Stories about New York and transit, about Ebola scares and Climate Disruption. But those had to wait. On Sunday the 26th, I rode the Tour de Bronx. It’s a bicycle tour through New York’s least storied borough. Scenery includes the Bronx […]
The Arctic Methane Monster’s Nasty Little Helpers: Study Finds Ancient, Methane Producing, Archaea Gorge on Tundra Melt
Originally posted on robertscribbler:
An emerging methane feedback in the Arctic. It’s something that, since last summer, I’ve been calling the Arctic Methane Monster. A beast of a thing composed of giant reserves of sea bed methane and an immense store of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra. How dangerous and vicious the monster ends…
Richard Heinberg talks about fracking on Sex and Politics
On Friday’s Sex And Politics, I’ll be talking to Richard Heinberg. Richard is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and has written extensively on the topic of Peak Oil, authoring 11 books on the topic since he began speaking about it in 2002. We’ll be focusing on his book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of […]
Carolyn Baker on WBCR’s Sex and Politics
On Friday’s edition of Sex and Politics, I spoke to Carolyn Baker about climate collapse and personal spiritual healing. Dr. Baker was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. She was an associate and colleague of the late Michael C Ruppert, and has been writing […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 