This was originally supposed to be a post tying together the various aspects of collapse that have already started, and are going to continue to snowball because we won’t or can’t do anything about it. But I started writing about economic collapse, and it just grew out of control. So likely what it’s going to end up with is a series of posts, ( Read more... )

As promised, my annotations on Newt's blatherings. Warning: Vitriol ahead!

( Yes, it really is that bad... )

This is an idea that came up in What a Way to Go. It boils down to, we don’t have to worry about the damage we’re doing, all the toxic, non-biodegradable waste we’re spewing, because new technologies are emerging quickly, and soon we’ll be able to clean everything up.

Bullshit. It’s a ( relocation of the problem )

Everybody’s heard about the melting icecaps, and about soil erosion, but what about the link between them? How about tying them together with melting permafrost? Well, here’s an article doing that, with some excerpts ( below )

According to the About the Authors on the jacket, Newt used to be an environmental studies professor. Whodathunkit?

Anyway, while in Chicago I happened upon a copy of this... "book"... and had to put it down. It seemed like every other sentence gave me something to rant about. So I transcribed the second chapter, which is basically a summary of ( Read more... )

Swiped from praecognomen.

Not that any of this surprises me anymore. I'm really hoping that a new administration will turn things around, but given politicians in general, and in particular the ones that manage to get elected, I honestly don't know how much of that is unfounded optimism.

Last week, I had to listen to someone saying that evolution does not claim that humans evolved from apes, or that birds evolved from reptiles. Ummm, yeah, actually, that’s exactly what it says. What the hell are you talking about ( Read more... )

But then, just to spite the kitten huffers, there's the ephemeral Non-huffable Kitten.

And in continued stupid religiosity news, the Missouri legislature has passed a bill including the text: The report may include steps taken by the institution to: ... Include intellectual diversity concerns in the institution's guidelines on teaching and program ( Read more... )

WTF? Got this today, and since I don't believe in sending out chainletters, I'm posting it here, and a Snopes link for some verification.

Recently this week, the UK removed The Holocaust from ( Read more... )

So I figured I’d give a friend a chance to rant here, since she doesn’t have her own blog. An e-mail I received last night:

So, I've noticed on TV (evil mode of brain melting for me right now) that there are several shows about incredibly large families (some IVF; most crazy christians who believe god told them to have 20 kids). I began doing ( Read more... )