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An Upside-Down Political Equation
Posted on June 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsAmerica — and the rest of the world, really — is living with this political equation: Our collective spending, guided by government, is needed to create jobs and stimulate a...
Hey Great Britain, It’s About Lives, Not Politics
Posted on June 11, 2010 | 1 CommentSo, a British company all but destroys the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of many and killing ocean wildlife, and the Brits are worried about their dividends?...
The Oil Spill and Political Paralysis
Posted on May 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe debate surrounding the tragic British Petroleum Gulf rig explosion and economy-wrecking oil spill has already spun off into an ideological wrestling match that’s got nothing to do with protecting...
Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 3 CommentsWe might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop...
British Petroleum’s Hands
Posted on May 3, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhen I was a young boy growing up in Wharton County, my family would once a year drive to Matagorda Bay and buy shrimp off the boats. We’d take them...The Myth of Adam (Smith)
Posted on May 3, 2010 | 3 CommentsRichard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchins, Sam Harris and their clubby ilk love to ramble on about destructive, unreasoned religious beliefs that enchain humanity in a continued dark age. It’s a mistake...
Butterflies and Blue Jeans
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn 2002, I made the choice to only buy clothing that was made from sustainable, recyclable or recycled materials and to wear that clothing as long as possible. The choice...
Coal Mining: Revealing the Cracks in Capitalism
Posted on April 20, 2010 | 5 CommentsWith the dust settling, bodies pulled from the earth and the families of the miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine reeling in their loss, the questioning has started...
Clockwork Orange Grove: England’s New Industry of Control
Posted on February 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsBack in 1971 Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange, startled American audiences with its graphic violence and disturbing, anti-authoritarian message. Kubrick’s film version of the Anthony Burgess book was, in...
The College Lending Con
Posted on February 10, 2010 | 5 CommentsIt’s one of the great cons of the last several decades. College lenders and their (mostly Republican) allies reduced state funding for colleges, watched with greedy eyes as universities were...