Although peak oil is a pretty new concept for me, I think I’m at the acceptance phase, and so it’s time to start doing something about it and using Granola Box to do it. The Queen of My Universe and I use the acronym EWAKI (End of the World as we Know It) to […]
Filed under: EWAKI on February 9th, 2008 | Add Comment! »
This is the response from one of my tenth graders to a homework question
Q: When foreign suppliers cut oil sales,or choose to sell their oil to other people, how should the United States respond?
A: First we face them politically and talk about a solution and if that doesn’t work do what the US does […]
Filed under: Politics, Teaching on February 7th, 2008 | Add Comment! »
So, I’m hanging out at Starbucks in the fairly affluent part of Rochester, NY waiting to get an MRI on my shoulder, which is currently having an attachment disorder. It tried to secede from the rest of my arm a few weeks ago, so I figured this was something worthy of an insurance co-pay. […]
Filed under: Politics on February 4th, 2008 | Add Comment! »
I think this was a line from a spaghetti western, which the Very Big Food Corporation of America co-opted into a Pizza ad.
I hadn’t thought about it much until the Queen of the Universe and I took a hike to the local cemetery. There was an abolitionist guy who worked on the […]
Filed under: General Observations, Music on February 2nd, 2008 | Add Comment! »
The reason I like the movie Bulworth so much is that Warren Beatty’s character tells the truth without thinking about it, and very often it’s the ugly truth that no one wants to hear. Or it’s the simple truth that we all should hear but never do hear because the media is so tightly […]
Filed under: Politics on February 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
