I'm pretty sure you know the drill. You pose the scenario and ask the hypothetical questions: There's an asteroid headed for Earth. We know exactly when it will strike, and it will kill all humans. Do you want to know it will strike? Do you want to know when? Some people want to know everything. Others don't want to know anything. People who want to know when the … [Read more...]
Ecology is turning me into a conservative
“Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food,” advises Michael Pollan, author of foodie blockbuster The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Who knows what hidden dangers newfangled and untested foods like margarine, energy drinks or Tofurkey might pose to our health? Now, that’s conservative. And I don’t mean conservative like the GOP leadership in Congress or the Koch … [Read more...]
Don’t alienate conservatives, says Hopkins
"Transition is much more powerful for not being explicitly political," Rob Hopkins told a conference call of Americans involved in Transition groups and interested in the movement. "It's better when Transition avoids associating itself with either the left or the right." Hopkins thinks that Transitioners should "fly under the radar" on political controversies. Even more, to … [Read more...]
Atlas bombed: Right-wing think tanks betray ignorance on energy
I want to get this review out fast, because, by the time you read it, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, which came out in mid-April, may already have left the theaters. Critics have roundly panned the movie version of free-market goddess Ayn Rand's 1957 novel for weak acting by B-list actors and a script with dialogue so wooden it could only have been phoned in from the men's room at the … [Read more...]