(Quick note: I’ve actually gotten a few e-mails over the last couple of days asking me for more content here … didn’t think anyone was actually paying attention. There is indeed much to write about, from energy to food. Perhaps I can piece off a spare few moments and address [...]
Lunch today (well, part of it):The answer to the first paragraph of this…
I admit it: I'm no environmentalist. But I like to think I'm something of a conservationist.…is, you’re actually neither, Jonah.
Here, we see yet another attempt by people previously hostile to the environment as an issue to attempt to co-opt it. [...]
If Destiny chose last week for the nation to see a new record high price for gasoline and turmoil in the financial markets, then you have to wonder whether Destiny has a pronounced sense of foreshadowing. This week comes the release of a book that patin.
James Howard Kunstler’s latest [...]
Like I think most people, I have a great deal of sympathy for the poor saps who’ve lost their homes since the collapse of the housing market. All of them share some small bit of the blame, but in the end the lesson they learned – that you can’t get [...]
(Part of a longer piece at Michigan Liberal)
It was pretty obvious for most of last evening that we were going to get a storm of some kind. The local schools canceled classes yesterday due to the dense fog created by rapidly melting snow, which was occasionally interrupted by a [...]
John Dimsdale: Iowa dairy farmer Francis Thicke has watched' [...]
There is something alarming about this statement:
Instead of being designated the dumping ground of North America for municipal waste, Michigan could turn that waste into energy, Granholm said. Eventually, families might be able to feed their trash into devices in their homes and out would come something useful at [...]Used to be, about a year ago, that I had a conversation with a dude about this place. We thought it would make a much better Waffle House than a party store. I’m sure they move volume in beer through the place, because it’s right down in the middle [...]
We, as Americans, have been trained to hate the word socialism. It is, to us, an even more baleful denigration than liberal, which itself is these days practically akin to insulting someone’s mother.
One marvels, naturally, at how quickly some will bend and yield to the ideas of socialism once [...]
The grant would come from state economic development funds, not from transportation dollars, said road commission managing director Orrin Gregg.
“It’s based on bringing jobs into Michigan, and that’s very important to the [...]
Analysts said the bigger-than-expected drop in housing construction could be signaling that the housing downturn, already the worst in 16 years, may be headed for bigger troubles. Housing activity is now 30.8 percent below the level of a year ago.This [...]
I remember watching Al Gore’s testimony before Congress earlier this year with mixed emotions. There was the hope that the kind of media attention about his return to Congress might raise awareness about the issue. There was also a kind of glum cynicism that ultimately Gore’s visit would be meaningless, [...]
The people I know complain endlessly about how stupid President George W. Bush is, and how badly he has lied to the public about this or that. But a casual observer from Mars would have to conclude that President Bush perfectly represents a nation that shows such [...]
As I get older, I derive greater pleasure from the simple act of walking. It is an great privilege, I think, to be able to place one foot and then the other successively in front of each other and move along. In this way, I can move miles per day, [...]
"Breakfast and a show, you just can't beat it. Damned if it ain't Wheatland."At the time, he was eating [...]
At their July 2007 meeting the DDA voted to approve a second $50,000 grant to the City's Energy Office to fund the installation of [...]
But the writer's duty, I am arguing, goes beyond the utterance and support [...]
"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."There are reasons why rabbits breed like rabbits, [...]
"The advantage we have as a desert state is that we've always managed water," Napolitano said. "We're [...]
But not a single line in the [...]
I’m compelled, by good form, to respond to an angry relative and make some corrections to this post. For the record, the stop for Batavia (in the town of Geneva) is no longer the last stop on the commuter line to Chicago. To the west of town, suburban development [...]
We drifted down the Grand River through the south side of Lansing, carried along by the slow. It might be the industrialized North, where everyone is always in a damned hurry to get someplace, but the river wasn't about to be rushed along its way. This had a corollary effect [...]
“Renewable energy is the ticket to a renewed economy for Michigan. We need an aggressive strategy to make this technology a reality,” said Sen. Jim Barcia. “Other states have already experienced job creation as a result of their efforts to [...]
"Using more corn for energy production will likely exert additional upward pressure on corn prices, potentially influencing livestock feed markets and meat prices," the GAO said in a report to Congress.The only meat [...]
