January 2012
13 posts
CharlesBarkley.com →
“not turrible”
“They are the guys playing tinkly pianos in a whorehouse anteroom, and...”
– “Am I Sick? Are We All Sick?”: Overwrought Things The Media Wrote To Auburn’s PR Guy During Cam Newton’s Wild 2010 Season
How the tv sports “journalism” sausage is made. Unreal.
Kunstler's 2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper →
Kunster’s annual predictions. A wild ride of a read as always.
On close examination, the industrial world underwent complete zombification in 2011. Its member states and their institutions are now lurching across the stage of history like so many walking dead. Whole European nations are dead, their citizens squirming around the ruined bones of failed speculative condo projects, housing...
December 2011
10 posts
“If you count all the DVR, HBO GO, replay viewership, we were in the millions....”
– Vulture: “Bored to Death” Creator Jonathan Ames on the Show’s Cancellation (via joshkinberg)
Change the model.
(via wreckandsalvage)
Case in point: I don’t get HBO, but whenever I’d visit my parents I’d rip through seasons of Bored To Death on demand in a single lazy afternoon....
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WatchWe all could learn a lot from Grace Lee Boggs.
November 2011
11 posts
onearth:
askjerves:
Once again…
Alice’s...
Keystone XL Pipeline Project Review Process:... →
onearth:
A VERY BORING HEADLINE for a very important State Department decision. The TarSandsAction activists prevail. Keystone XL decision delayed for over a year under re-review.
(Want to know why they delayed? See Ben Jervey’s and Ted Genoway’s coverage from the massive “ring around the White House” action on Sunday. And photos!)
Biggest domestic energy/environment/climate story of the...
“High speed rail provides a sensible and viable solution to our region’s...”
– Eric Cantor, in a letter to Ray LaHood pleading for stimulus funds, while publicly claiming to be against the stimulus and that government spending doesn’t create jobs.
October 2011
22 posts
“It’s October. Do it all.”
– Our friend and colleague Matt Skoglund, in a beautiful ode to a wonderful month. (via onearth)
“First of all, I am a citizen of the United States and a private citizen, and I...”
– Nebraska rancher Randy Thompson, on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. I don’t know why libertarians aren’t up in arms over this thing.
Revkin.net: Machiavelli Applied to Lopsided... →
revkin:
On @dotearth: In regard to the lopsidedness of the climate-related energy policy fight, a quote from Machiavelli sums it up well: “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of…
kateoplis: “This is quite possibly the biggest... →
kateoplis:
“This is quite possibly the biggest potential scandal of the Obama years. But there’s a danger that it will go ignored for three reasons:
First, it’s so incredibly blatant that it’s hard to believe—neither of us are naifs, but we are still astonished that they’d show their industry bias this…
