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No good deed goes unpunished
Originally posted on The Vermont Political Observer.:
You try to do something nice… Last spring, Senate Minority Leader Joe Benning got a letter from an eighth-grader at The Riverside School in Lyndonville. She was studying Latin, and wanted Senator Joe to introduce a bill to give Vermont a Latin motto. We’ve got “Freedom and Unity,”…
Is this how die-off starts?
I’ve been posting about near-term human extinction for several months now–ever since I became aware of the work of Dr. Guy McPherson. I was acquainted with his theories after the death of Michael C Ruppert, a fabulous hot mess of truth and conspiracy who told it like he saw it and had some amazing insights. […]
Cheap gas and economic collapse
I was hoping to keep this short when I started writing it back in early December, but (to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson), “things are in the saddle and ride mankind.” Oil prices have fallen off a cliff in recent weeks, declining some 45%. It has been a good time for motorists–and for the peak […]
Hurry up with 2014 already!
Originally posted on The Brooklyn Culture Jam:
We are now in the armpit of the year that is the six days betwixt Xmas and New Year’s Day. I can’t do a Year in Review on a totally pessimistic note. I had several performance gigs. I bid adieu to Richmond, Virginia after getting rid of my…
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!
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…
The Monday after the People’s Climate March
On Sunday I reposted Peter Sinclair’s ‘Tipping Point‘ article about the hundreds of thousands who took to the street to protest against government inaction on climate change. Today’s post is not a post about passing the climate tipping point as suggested by Guy McPherson. Instead, it’s a public tipping point. I’m suggesting you read another […]
Going big guns on Net Neutrality
Originally posted on Bryn Greenwood:
I keep seeing people posting images in support of net neutrality, but beyond making people more aware that big money interests are trying to create fast and slow lanes on the internet, those images don’t do much to stop it from happening. What can you, as a lone private citizen,…
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