The Libertarian Position on Global Warming
Let’s just say that Marc Morano will not be pleased.
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Blog Issues
As some of you may have noticed, the site was down for a few hours. I apologize for the inconvenience. There were some server problems. This blog is due for a makeover and that includes finding a more reliable web host service.
The Control of Nature Annals
The events in Louisiana have prompted The New Yorker to display this classic (freely accessible) from John McPhee on its home page.
A Straight Talk Revival?
This Washington Post op-ed by Senator John McCain, rebutting his fellow Republicans on the use of torture, is notable. Might it herald the return of the old McCain from the early 2000s? If so, he might also find his voice on the climate issue.
Bin Laden Tick Tock
Like many, I’ve been closely following the big story this week. For those interested in how Bin Laden was finally found and about the mission that took him out, read this tick tock in the NYT. For background on the elite commandos and the special operations apparatus they belong to, read this and this. These…Continue Reading…
Earth Day
What is it good for?
Double Shocker
The mind reels: In what might be one of the most remarkable about-faces ever to come from within the beltway, James Inhofe, Senator and minority ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (R. OKLA), apologized to a stunned Senate chamber for calling climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”…Continue Reading…
The Upside to the GOP Targeting of William Cronon
Long before William Cronon rocked Wisconsin Republicans’ world, he rocked mine when I read his first book, Changes in the Land. It pretty much reoriented my intellectual framework. (Another journalist seems to have had a similar experience.) Here’s the 1984 NYT review of the book that launched Cronon’s career. But I’m just a piker. There…Continue Reading…
Yogi & Gator
Best spring training baseball story. Which sort of reminded me of one of my all-time favorite TV shows.