The Zero Waste Movement
Here’s an idea that I loved the moment I heard about it: community libraries that lend hundreds of different items that are typically used only periodically, and therefore need not be owned. (more…)
Superstorms in Europe
We’ve all wondered how the U.S. news media selects the stories it wishes to pick up and run with. The most obvious answer is that news is simply a form of for-profit entertainment, and there must be some decision-making apparatus that predicts in advance what American consumers are likely to find appealing.
The explosion of superstorms in Europe seems to get very little attention. Check this out.
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How Trump Became U.S. President
For those looking for a theory to explain Donald Trump as U.S. President, it’s beginning to look like what we’ve been told since the beginning is true, i.e., that Russia worked assiduously to make it happen, based on their well-founded beliefs that this would be most advantageous to their aims. (more…)
Exercising Tolerance in U.S. Politics
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush
In the post I wrote yesterday, Not Everyone Can Raise His Voice, I pondered the good fortunate I had to have lived through the “corporate” period of my life without the criminal insanity of today’s U.S. federal government. Would I have dared to make public statements on this subject when I was billing millions of dollars of marketing services to clients like Penske Logistics, IBM and AT&T, all likely to be captained by heavy-duty right-wingers? (more…)
Climate Change Mitigation
As this cartoon reminds us, all the actions we are (or should be) taking to mitigate the effects of climate change have benefits that transcend their main intended purpose.
Global warming is anything but a hoax. (more…)
Confronting Tidal Flooding in Southern Florida
As I’ve mentioned, one of my best friends from college, Beam Furr, has spent his career in local politics and is currently mayor of Broward County, FL, which, for better or worse, contains the coastal city of Hollywood. Why “for better or worse?” (more…)
Not Everyone Can Raise His Voice
“If people all over the world would do this….” Therein lies the rub. The people who are actually going to speak up are those lucky enough not to be caught up in any of the following:
• First and most obviously, living in a country where speech critical of the local autocrat is banned, or at least greatly throttled. (more…)
U.S. in Peril
What’s the single scariest thing happening in the United States right now?
The breakdown of military justice, thus encouraging American soldiers to commit war crimes? (more…)
Yes, the U.S. Is In a Terrible Place Right Now, But There Is Hope
It would be easy to look at the United States right now, and conclude that all the stupidity, greed, selfishness, dishonesty, corruption and other forms of criminality that underpin our federal government and its state-run “news” agency are happening equally all around the world. As shown here, that is clearly not the case at all.
Maybe the Americans who are learning about New Zealand will insist that some of that sanity and decency wear off and land here. Maybe not.
What the U.S. Has Lost
Whoever created this did a workmanlike job. I would add:
• The respect of the rest of the world
• The trust of anyone considering making a deal with the United States (more…)
