Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 12th, 2012
In Case You missed It: Satire – sometimes the best antidote to madness Satire is sometimes the best antidote to madness, and if you want a few laughs about the utter stupidity of the times we are living in, I can recommend one movie which, not surprisingly perhaps, is called Idiocracy. It was released in [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 17th, 2012
The Death of Common Sense – a witty obituary and indictment of our time These days there seems to be an absolute dearth of common sense. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “That’s crazy!” when some new regulation is announced, or politicians and economists declare their total faith in endless growth on a [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 12th, 2012
In Case You Missed It – Now even US citizens can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial So much seems to be happening these days and everyone seems to be so busy and have so little time (so much for time-saving machines!) that I’ve decided to start a new occasional series to try to bring [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Current Affairs on Sep 30th, 2011
What Science Has to Say About Our Stuff and Happiness Even as we rush to the mall with our credit cards, we’re likely to be repeating to ourselves and telling other people that we know “stuff” does not make us happy. Yet our governments still measure citizens’ well-being in terms of economic output [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 27th, 2011
AS THE CONTROVERSY AROUND the documentary Gasland 2010 continues, you might appreciate some context to the arguments about natural gas reserves. (If you don’t think it’s important – that’s even more reason to take 120 seconds to read about it. In January 2011, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the world may have twice [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 2nd, 2011
If you think we have environmental and energy problems now, take a look at what modest annual economic growth of 4.4% could do to this planet by 2027. National economies around the world are expected to grow in 2011 by an average of 4.4% – much more in China, India and the rest of Asia, [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 19th, 2011
On the last day of last year – 2010 – a friend and I were talking about the state of the world and the possibilities for certain events in 2011. When I brought up the subjects of: peak oil and the likelihood of the price of oil increasing dramatically as global production falls, and the [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 9th, 2011
Cultivating optimism for the 21st century. Many people in the West are familiar with Pandora’s Box – you know, the Greek myth about the young Pandora who opened the box or jar she had been given with the express warning not to open it. All the evils of the world flew out. But do you [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Apr 12th, 2010
If you read this quote from Eugene V. Debs you may 9or may not) agree that is a sorry commentary on America today. Then look when the words were spoken. ” It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world….. These [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Sailing on Mar 5th, 2010
I wrote recently about the amazing amount of our plastics now floating about in the oceans. A new story by Victoria Gill of the BBC highlights the situation in the North Atlantic where researchers have found a massive garbage zone. The maximum density of plastic trash was 200,000 pieces per square kilometre! The tiny pieces [...]
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