Gunny responsed to a comment I made on The Daily Beast. I gave it some thought and want to respond to him here. This is what he said: .”….polarization weakens this country…” “I not sure that’s what’s going on – that is to say I don’t think the polarization is the cause of weakness- I [...]
Just want to call attention to this fantastic multi-part series in the LA Times on world population growth. I’m inclined to a road warrior type conclusion. The LAT has a paywall after a couple of articles, i get past it by restarting / resetting my browser when i get the message my number is up.
CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been slowly climbing toward 400 ppm for a good while, and now at long last we’ve finally managed to bump above that level in some locations. This is the kind of shit that happens when proper legislation to prevent such measurements is lacking. Oh well, too late now. IPS [...]
There is much more information coming out of Japan about the status of the Fukushima catastrophe than is appearing on the front page of the MSM. We’ll get to some speculation about the reasons for that later, but first let’s note that the main concern for most observers is not the reactor core(s) (though that’s [...]
Another photo from Lewis Wickes Hine. It was photographic work like this which contributed mightily to the political momentum necessary for the introduction of Child Labor Laws. There were many such photographers who spent years documenting the plight of children employed in coal mines, cotton mills and the like. Hine is one of the best [...]
… and why we need Al Jazeera. This is in the must-see category. This is just more evidence of the decaying infrastructure that is now epidemic in the US, and there is not the political will to do much of anything about it. The cost of properly maintaining these facilities, and others, is enormous, and [...]
(h/t io9)
… occasionally. While the Japanese are still trying, and struggling mightily with all kinds of problems, to mop up the Fukushima mess, the whole business of nuclear power generation goes largely unreported in the US mainstream media. But every once in a while that’s not true, and they do a halfway decent job of raising [...]
I did not watch the speech, that’s not possible here at my house, but I read it. I actually read all of it, but ran out of enthusiasm at paragraphs number five and six. That’s what, maybe 5% into the thing? I struggled through the rest, but my heart wasn’t in it. This is where [...]