By Tom on 8/17/2008 10:52 AM

The  2008 Context:

China 3,897,000 sq mi    US 3,022,000 sq mi
China has no oil. The US intends to have all the oil. Solomon, where are you?
The stable limit of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 380 ppm. Germany has reduced emissions. The US has not. China is increasing its emissions. Meanwhile the stable limit has been reached and the world drives on the bri ... Read More »

By Tom on 8/17/2008 9:28 AM

From Greener Times Aug 17, 2008.  Cat on a hot tin roof is an exaggeration of this column's state of mind, but it's the right image. After reading the day's "outed truth", I want to get off. What am I supposed to do about the US sending provocoteurs to the Republic of Georgia? About America's biggest union being service workers? About the Forest Service knocking 23% off our protected forest acreage? About the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhatt ... Read More »

By Tom on 8/17/2008 9:20 AM

From "Greener Times" Aug 10, 2008. This week’s Thought is a frustrated sigh over tacit acceptance of a failed government. Attempts to get rid of it seem like, well, like towing a ship with a rowboat.

 
“Making an ash breeze” was the last resort of sailing ships becalmed in the doldrums. In the eighteen hundreds trade with the orient and Australia was carried out with consummate skill by the captains of sailing ... Read More »