Archive for 2010
What I’ve Noticed: Politicians don’t get economics edition
AZ governor and strong supporter of the bad-for-business anti-immigrant law, Jan Brewer, lies about immigrants and her own past. Anyone who grows such lovely hydrangeas couldn’t possibly be a spy! Knowing a little history goes a long way towards refuting people who try to rewrite it. It could also prevent our politicians from making the […]
Twice the fire
The fire doubled in size yesterday and the Incident Management Team expects it will take weeks to fight. I’m supposed to move this Thursday – I’m hoping that the smoke doesn’t get too bad in town and that we don’t get evacuated.
5 miles away…
Fire season
The town I live in is surrounded by forests that are far too dense due to decades of fire suppression. May and June are warm, very dry, and windy. This combination makes for fast, hot fires. The picture above is from a fire that started about two hours ago.
Wondaland
More on Janelle Monae in Wondaland.
What I’ve Noticed
Frank Fenner thinks we’ll go the way of the Easter Islanders in the next 100 years. I disagree that humans will go extinct, but I agree that we’ve waited far too long to address energy and population issues to avoid dramatic and involuntary reduction in our population. And it’s already happening: resource competition, exacerbated by […]