August 2010

I Saw This

August 10, 2010

Ok WHAT. I must be completely out of touch with youth pop culture of the times because I haven’t the slightest clue what a Pop ‘n’ Drop is. I must be getting old, too, because neither do I want to know what it is, nor are my nieces allowed anywhere near it. (Give me a [...]

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Current Issues in the Geoblogosphere – Episode #1

August 9, 2010

The PepsiGate-induced exodus from Science Blogs and asinine California serpentinite-asbestos rumble, while waxing social, political and scientific on the BP oil spill for the last 110 odd days, have me convinced that the public outreach component of the science community, and geoscience in particular, needs a lot more work. In planning and design of cities, [...]

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Why Not You?

August 6, 2010

Many of you have read or quoted from Christopher Hitchens’s profound essay on his cancer. I point out this little bit, because it speaks in a few sentences what I dislike about religion or, more specifically, constant religiousness. Things don’t have to happen for a reason. To think otherwise is creating a crutch. That’s no [...]

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The Philosophy Of Environing

August 6, 2010

Ed Darrell points out at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub an interesting 2008 exchange between Speaking of Faith’s Krista Tippett and Cal DeWitt, professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on the history of environmentalism. According to DeWitt, it would seem that human beings stopped viewing themselves as part [...]

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Rising Tide Conference 5

August 5, 2010

It has indeed been almost five years since The Storm. The fifth annual Rising Tide conference on the recovery and future of New Orleans will take place on Saturday, August 28th at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones and bad smartass or is it smart badass, [...]

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Foundation Of Government

August 4, 2010

“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.” - John Adams Newt Gingrich knows the difference between a theocracy [...]

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Day 106 The Oil Hasn’t Vanished

August 3, 2010

The oil has not vanished. I repeat: The oil has not vanished. The Gulf of Mexico’s summertime dead zone is twice as big as last year’s. Think about it: How can 206 million gallons of crude vanish in 19 days? 205.8 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico = 2.37 million gallons [...]

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Our Gulf War

August 2, 2010

On 23 August 1990 President Saddam appeared on state television with Western hostages to whom he had refused exit visas. In the video, he patted a small British boy named Stuart Lockwood on the back. Saddam then asks, through his interpreter, Sadoun al-Zubaydi, whether Stuart is getting his milk. Saddam went on to say, “We hope your [...]

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