Jeff Tweedy, who leads the evolving band known as Wilco, doesn’t look much like a rock star. He doesn’t dye his hair, grow it long or shave it off. He doesn’t flaunt tattoos, squeeze into tight pants or stomp around in boots. He wears jeans and a T-shirt, stares unhappily at cameras and in generalContinue reading “Rock’s Everyman: Jeff Tweedy”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Seeing China Clearly — Through the Smog
Orville Schell has been writing about China for decades, and is probably the ideal person to answer questions about China and global warming, being both a China scholar and a good reporter. His answers to questions from readers of the New York Times are long, so I’m going to post most of them below the fold, but excerpt the crucial point, in his first answer:
Instead of seeking out a common remedy whereby the US might lead the
world in searching for and then formulating some plan to pool resources
and allow China to continue to develop, albeit in a “clean” manner
while still limiting both conventional pollutants and carbon emissions,
the US has used China’s obduracy to opt out of any solution altogether,
including the Kyoto Protocols.
The result is that while the US hides behind China, China hides
behind the US. We find ourselves in a world where the two largest
polluters are sitting the game out, even as our common globe becomes
increasingly warmed, with all the attendant consequences.
Katrina: Still A Disaster for Bush
We’ve discussed this before, but although everyone agrees that the war in Iraq is the albatross around the Prez’s neck, it’s also a fact that the bottom fell out of Bush’s popularity thanks to his administration’s disastrously incompetent handling of Hurricane Katrina, from which he has never recovered. Dan Balz of the Washington Post bringsContinue reading “Katrina: Still A Disaster for Bush”
Radio Nowhere: The Return of Bruce
Okay, this is cool. Bruce Springsteen gives away the first song to his new record. And it sounds good! Download "Radio Nowhere" Free from the iTunes Store
Clinton: Global Warming Must Become Voting Issue
Is climate change the perfect political problem? Andrew Revkin of the New York Times seems to think so, and recently asked the best political analyst of our era, Bill Clinton, how we face up to that, in a video interview. Yours truly has taken the trouble to provide a transcript of his answer. After admittingContinue reading “Clinton: Global Warming Must Become Voting Issue”
Bush’s Legacy, according to Toles
Tom Toles, said to be the 48th most powerful person in D.C., and without doubt the editorial cartoonist most likely to consider global warming a matter of importance, returns from vacation with a vision of Bush’s true legacy, which will be far more destructive, unfortunately, than a notoriously incompetent AG.
Fires in Greece Visible from Space
A photograph from August posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory site:
Grief (for Greece)
An extraordinary photograph, already nominated for awards, by Stephmel. Licensed via Creative Commons.
Sunday Morning on the Planet: Rockrgrls
On a Sunday morning, to post about rock and roll — blasphemous. Nonetheless…we have a friend who’s a genuine, certified "rockrgrl" — Rain Perry. Won an award from the magazine and everything. Wrote and sang what is surely the best song ever about Yosemite, called, appropriately, "Yosemite." Since Rain has so generously made it availableContinue reading “Sunday Morning on the Planet: Rockrgrls”
“An Unspeakable Tragedy” — 170 fires burning, 44 dead, government shaken
In contrast to the Zaca fire in Southern California, which has killed nobody and damaged no major structures, the fires in Greece this year have been devastating. Over 170 fires are now burning around the country. Mostly they are wildfires in the hills, but yesterday a fire broke out in Athens itself that required tenContinue reading ““An Unspeakable Tragedy” — 170 fires burning, 44 dead, government shaken”
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