How Environmental Are You? Take the Quiz.

As regular visitors know, I try to lighten up a bit on Sundays. I put a lot of energy into talking about remarks made by Ann Coulter yesterday, because I think our language choices are really important, and the language choices of public figures seeking to influence others even more important.
After all the talking about […]

With Oscars, Hollywood Leads America to an International Vision

As the U.S. continues to “go it alone” in the world with regard not only to neocon-style hegemony but also regarding environmental treaties, war crimes treaties, weapons bans, land mines, and transmitting any other number of insults to critics and allies alike, there is a large moneyed faction of “ordinary americans” seeking to take up […]

Time To Get Off Our Asses and Do Something

I’m talking to me and I’m talking to you. Some folks are doing everything they can. This is for the rest of us. I sit in my comfy dining room or home office and tap away posting blog entries. It’s great for venting bile and preaching to the choir. Most of my hits in the […]

Andrew Sullivan’s Amazing Intellect Falls Prey to Bush-Think

On the eve of his move to the more prestigious Atlantic Monthly, conservative standard bearer undermines scientific standards in defense of AEI
The basics: Exxon-funded American Enterprise Insttiute (AEI, in acronym-speak) offered $10k to scientists to write papers that refute the proposition that human activity causes global warming.
More basics: Legitimate science does not start with the […]