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Yes, I vote, every election. That event where you mark your preferences, if you can find them, then watch your number get counted on TV among the millions of others, make snarky remarks about how you...
View ArticleRolling back the financial sector
It's not news that the size of the financial sector in the US has grown rapidly, and there is plenty of evidence that this has been a significant driver in the ruinous maldistribution of wealth that is...
View ArticleRolling back the financial sector II - George Bailey Lives!
Previously, I described how it is every American's patriotic duty to vigorously protect themselves from getting taken for a ride in the area of financial services. The few examples, briefly covered,...
View ArticleLord of the Flies - coming soon to your country
There is more going on than just incitement, or violent imagery, or mental illness, or anything else cited in the MSM in reference to the recent tragedy. What happens when more and more people are...
View ArticlePeak Oil - It's a Good Thing!
Like a pair of thugs closing in on us from opposite directions in a narrow alley, the combination of peak oil and global climate change may have our civilization pinned, with nowhere to go. No fire...
View ArticleMeasuring Harm
Two Koches = One standard unit of harm. One Koch will be initially set to a value equal to one gigaton of carbon emissions. This is fitting, both in the sense of measurable harm and in conveying the...
View ArticleClimate Pollutants by the Numbers
Nine gigatons! That’s big! Ten gigatons! Even bigger! What is a gigaton, anyway? After reading this or that GHG number slung about, I realized that I had no idea what any of the numbers really...
View ArticleSolar, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways …
The potential for truly distributed energy, truly distributed power, could be the contribution of solar energy that equals or even exceeds the importance of its reduction in carbon pollution. It is no...
View ArticleJay Inslee for WA Governor
Last night Congressman Jay Inslee (D - WA 01) visited the regular monthly meeting of the Whatcom County WA democratic party. Jay Inslee is an inspiring leader. He gave an excellent talk that showed...
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