Gaia: Sick and Getting Sicker
James Lovelock, the Gaia hypothesis scientist, is not too optimistic. “There’s no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the planet …
Category Archives: General
Non Stop Demonstrations among Muslims
You’d almost have to think the neo-cons made him do it, the way Pope Benedict’s citation of a 14th century …
The Pope, Islam, Atheism
Sam Harris who is making quite a name for himself as a militant, in your face atheist, has a dashed …
CO2 Cut it Fast and then Faster
From Great Britain “Drastic action is needed if Britain is to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change, a …
American Liberals: Gone But Not Forgotten
Tony Judt, whose hefty Post War: A History of Europe Since 1945 beckons ominously from my nightstand, has a very …
Environment: Incineration & Solid Waste
This article about a new “plasma-arc” incinerator for solid waste caught my eye today. I’d never heard of the technology …
California: GW Initiative
Not being real policy wonkish myself I wasn’t sure it was time to blow the party horns over the California …
Science Friday: Weather
For us old fogeys these satellite photos are the stuff of magic. I remember thrilling to tales of the hurricane …
Climate Change: Great Plains – Sierra Nevada
Climate change is a somewhat better moniker than global warming for what is happening all around us. This report of …
Christian Nationalism
John Dean, on the case again! If more Americans would read works like Michelle Goldberg’s Kingdom Coming: The Rise of …
Just Don’t Call It Fascism
I’ve been assembling material for an essay about the promiscuous use of the word “fascism” for some time. Though my …
Science Friday: Fatherhood and Authority
Breaking science news! According to a CNN interview astrologers are having nothing to do with the demotion of Pluto to …