The insta-celebrity Carrie Prejean, right-wing heroine and defrocked beauty queen, has been brought low by that most embarrassing of all self-destructive acts…a sex tape. According to Google Trends, her (unreleased) sex tape was the hottest search item on Google Trends a couple of days ago, and the chart still looks like a rocket going up. Continue reading “Palin’s Little Sister Goes Rogue on the Appalachian Trail”
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Is urban farming really a sustainable lifestyle? This is a question Novella Carpenter spent ten years of her life trying to figure out in Oakland, California, and it's a question she answers in her new book Farm City. Here's a picture of the writer on her urban farm: The book gets a favorable mention onContinue reading “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer”
Sunbathing in Scotland by 2060?
From the staid London Times: The government’s chief scientific adviser has warned that climate change could destabilise populations across Europe, potentially triggering a wave of migrants heading for cooler regions such as the British Isles and Scandinavia. Professor John Beddington believes that, without deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, average temperatures could rise by aboutContinue reading “Sunbathing in Scotland by 2060?”
Water Deal: Delta Savior, or Unworkable Mess?
Yours truly has been trying to make sense of the massive California water deal headed for the Governor's desk. Haven't made a whole lot of progress yet; it's so big that apparently most of the legislators who voted on it, either pro or con, didn't even try to read it. But I have come acrossContinue reading “Water Deal: Delta Savior, or Unworkable Mess?”
Sarah Palin: A Job in Heels with Cross-Eyes
If you find the Palin phenomenon fascinating, if alarmingly irrational, you will want to read the astounding rant on the subject from Matt Taibii, not published by Rolling Stone, but available via True/Slant. Here's a selection: Palin’s paranoid ramblings and self-pitying tantrums on the way out of office not only didn’t injure her chances forContinue reading “Sarah Palin: A Job in Heels with Cross-Eyes”
The Elephant and the Frog (climate edition)
For the thousandth time, thank you Tom Toles, for publishing your sketchbook:
For Those Who Hate Daylight Savings Time
That's from PostSecret. For thoughtful sorts who like a little reasoning to go with their instinctive hatreds, here's Ryan Sager from True/Slant, making a shocking amount of sense. I'll just mention his first of ten reasons to dump daylight savings time: Daylight Saving Time (DST) was sold as an energy-saving measure. But it doesn’t saveContinue reading “For Those Who Hate Daylight Savings Time”
The Amazon: Carbon Sink…or Source?
According to the leading researcher in the field, Oliver Phillips, it's kind of up to us: The world’s forests are an enormous carbon sink, meaning they absorb massive quantities of carbon dioxide, through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. In normal years the Amazon alone absorbs three billion tons of carbon, more than twice theContinue reading “The Amazon: Carbon Sink…or Source?”
Water Use in U.S. Levels Off
Peter Gleick, water analyst extraordinare. and leader of The Pacific Institute, reveals that water consumption in the US of A has actually declined slightly in recent years, according to the USGS. This is a big deal, as he says, for this reason: Water planners are trained to assume that as population and economies grow, waterContinue reading “Water Use in U.S. Levels Off”
Why I Moved Out of L.A.
From Indexed. Was a good move then, and feels necessary now, for mental health.
Kit Stolz 