Yesterday Jason Margolis for The World had an absolutely first-class analysis of the presidential politics of global warming. He began with the GOP front-runner's silence on the issue, which Margolis contrasted against the GOP candidate of four years ago. Here's what John McCain said about climate change while running for President as a Republican: “It’sContinue reading “How far we have come on global warming — not!”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Clint Eastwood: It’s halftime in America
A TV news station asks the horserace question about perhaps the biggest ad of the Superbowl this year: Clint Eastwood's. Which has to do with "Imported from Detroit" car company. Will this be as big a hit as was last year's adored Emimem commercial? Short answer: Yes. As with the rapper, Eastwood risks his credibilityContinue reading “Clint Eastwood: It’s halftime in America”
Romney attacks: Obama tugs gently at the heartstrings
Andrew Sullivan is not happy with Mitt Romney's victory speech in Florida: 8.44 pm. Everything this man says is a lie. He's doubling down on the big lies I tried to counter in that Newsweek piece. The president Romney is describing does not exist. Obama is demonizing and denigrating every sector of the economy? ThatContinue reading “Romney attacks: Obama tugs gently at the heartstrings”
Bumbling environmentalists, according to Carl Hiassen
The great newspaperman and comic/detective novelist discusses journalism, esp. environmental journalism, with Curtis Brainard: Newspaper cutbacks are a recurring theme in your novels. How do you see them affecting environmental journalism? They’re a grave threat, because the first things that tend to go are investigative and explanatory journalists. Everything becomes shorter and more bite-sized. EnvironmentalContinue reading “Bumbling environmentalists, according to Carl Hiassen”
Ormond beach: the beautiful problem
My cover story this week in the Reporter, on "the broken mirror" of Ormond Beach. This is about 1500 acores along about two miles of beach in South Oxnard, astonishingly rich in shorelife, somehow trying to hold its beauty and vigor amidst monocultural agriculture and heavy industry. And here's a picture I took, of aContinue reading “Ormond beach: the beautiful problem”
The richness of the light of these days: John Muir
Warm and bright, the valley was spanned by fibrous bows of white cloud, heated masses of air from currentless ovens of chambered and bushy rocks lifted by newborn winds and bourne whole or in fragments about the open gulf of the valley…the richness of the light of these days recalls our best mellow autumns andContinue reading “The richness of the light of these days: John Muir”
CA Fish and Game proposes regs to save sea bass species
Here's my story from the Santa-Barbara Independent. I thought the quote below was the memorable from the hearing, from one of the agency's commissioners at the hearing, about the dangers of fishing aggregations of spawning fish. Fishing massed groups of spawning fish can mislead anglers into unwittingly devastating a fish population in real trouble, aContinue reading “CA Fish and Game proposes regs to save sea bass species”
Dozens of tornadoes devastate the South — in January
A rare mid-winter brace of hurricanes devastates the South; 150-mph winds recorded. Two dozen or so tornadoes sweeps through four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina — killing six people, injuring a hundred or more, and leaving countless others homeless. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyContinue reading “Dozens of tornadoes devastate the South — in January”
Can the Romneytron 9000 elicit emotion from humans?
Bright young Brit Tim Stanley reports on the ground from South Carolina and very convincingly argues that Newt Gingrich didn't win the primary. Willard Romney lost it. Newt Gingrich will deny it, but the South Carolina vote was really a referendum on Romney. He lost it because he is slipping in the area that wasContinue reading “Can the Romneytron 9000 elicit emotion from humans?”
Dreamed in the sunbeams: John Muir
From his unpublished journals written in his sheep-herding days, before Muir came to stay in Yosemite Valley: Dreamed in the sunbeams, when the sheep were calm, the plan of a hermitage: walls of pure white quartz, doors and windows edged with quartz crystals, windows of thin smooth sheets of water with ruffling apparatus to answerContinue reading “Dreamed in the sunbeams: John Muir”
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