Tuesday Energy Blogging: The end of growth?
I’m on a quest to find good books on energy and the environment to read and recommend. My web surfing this morning led me to LifeTwo, a site devoted to midlife. The 2007 article I linked to cited Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by economist Bill McKibben. [...]
“Tracy Porter’s interception was totally SOCIALIST!”
Heartfelt congratulations to the New Orleans Saints and to the folks in Louisiana for last night’s exciting and well-deserved win. Geaux Saints, and Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Can nothing be untouched by politics? The Tebow ad had already stirred up pre-game partisan controversy but it was at least (tangentially it turned [...]
As species go, we don’t hold a candle to our best friends.
Several search and rescue teams from several countries have rushed to Haiti in the past few days and many of them have brought specially trained dogs with them.
They scramble over heaps of rubble, often at great peril to themselves, to help their handlers locate trapped people. They don’t care about politics and [...]
Twas the night before Xmas, and I feel like Santa drove his sleigh over me
See, what happened was, I was walking along minding my own business when I tripped on something. I broke the fall with my face. Because I am made of mostly durable rubber, I didn’t break anything and sustained no concussion. I did, despite my best efforts with hydrogen peroxide, develop a [...]
A PSA regarding WW2 heroes
While at the State Committee meeting waiting for the Veteran’s Caucus to start, an elderly gentleman named Frederick approached me to ask about the Caucus. He said he was a WW2 vet and that he was going to be visiting the Memorial in DC soon. His trip is being sponsored by the Honor [...]
Happy Veterans Day
First off, allow me to prostrate myself and beg forgiveness for my failure to do a post yesterday on energy. By the time I remembered it was 11:56 pm and not even I, with my procrastinator’s knack for performing impressive last minute feats, was going to be able to come up with a topic [...]
Marketing to women fail.
Furniture Affairs, a local emporium of “gently-used” furnishings wanted to celebrate its 20 years in business and take advantage of consumers looking for bargains in the current recession. My friend Joy sent out an alert to facebook friends about this billboard:
Umm…I guess we’re supposed to take away from this that buying furniture on the [...]