My mother wrote me this morning, suggesting that I “Check out the N.Y. Times article by David Brooks: ‘How Change Happens.’” Thanks, Mom. David Brooks is an articulate advocate for free-market economics, and this is a perfect example. No surprise here. …
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My thanks to everyone who has participated in the recent 2GreenEnergy survey. I note that Dr. David Doty, one of the greatest intellects I’ve ever run across, boldly predicted the following for the coming five years: Oil, coal, and gas will steadily …
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I’d like to ask a favor, if I may. We have a quick survey up on the 2GreenEnergy website – one that, interestingly enough, calls for you to predict the future. Given our current energy policies and the rate at …
Survey: Given Our Energy Policies, How Likely Is It…..? Read More »
A reader from the San Francisco Bay Area sent me this article, which he said, “was buried within an article on other SF subjects. Thought you might be interested.” Green vs. green: San Franciscans’ enthusiasm for going green with “clean …
Frequent commenter Duke Brooks writes in: Americans who rail against U.S. polluters should probably spend a few days in the world’s most polluted city, Beijing. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say. But the …
If you were tasked with crafting the worst possible energy policy, what would you do? Well, you’d say, “OK, I’m going to reward bad behavior, and penalize good behavior,” right? Then you’d send enormous sums of tax-payers’ money to the …
As a younger man, I had a business partner with whom I ran a marketing consultancy that was 200 employees strong, with clients on four continents — during which time I logged a great number of air miles. I used …
Oh my God. Please tell me this isn’t true – that it’s a bad dream. I don’t live on the same planet with people who would run an ad like this one from the Heartland Institute, do I? For those …
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It’s the 543rd birthday of Machiavelli who, according to the Writer’s Almanac, wrote that: morality was irrelevant when it came to running a state, and that leaders should be willing to perform evil acts when it became necessary to hold …
Most of us read George Orwell’s 1984 in high school, and since incorporated the adjective “Orwellian,” into our vocabularies as a result of the enormous impact this masterpiece made upon us. As it’s usually used to describe language, “Orwellian” refers …
