A Greenhouse Effect Warning from 1983
While cleaning out my office the other day, I found a yellowed newspaper clipping with the headline, "Greenhouse effect viewed with alarm." The article was dated Oct. 18, 1983. Check it out below...
View ArticleImaging the Milky Way
“Applied imagination,” or “creative visualization,” is usually directed inward or toward a desired outcome by those of the New Age persuasion, but in this application is directed outward—in this case,...
View ArticleVoting in New Mexico
My wife and I voted this morning and it was quick and easy. I don't know if this is true for all of New Mexico, but in Dona Ana County we have 39 "Voter Convenience Centers" this year. No need to...
View ArticleSlouching Our Way to Antitopia -- Musings on New Buffalo Commune and the...
For quite some time I've been asking myself the question, "Why did the bright promise of the 60s turn out so terribly wrong?" Why was the back-to-the-land movement such a failure? As one of the few...
View ArticlePutting the "F*ck" Back in "F*ck Yeah!"
Reading Fishgrease's latest diary reminded me of the usefulness of profanity in everyday discourse. I remembered the essay my son, soarfledgling, wrote about the subject several years ago when he was...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Robin and Sundew
I notice memoirs from time to time on DKos. Here's my contribution.
View ArticleThe Gift Comes Full Circle
1. The Gift Goes OutOne cold January evening (Jan. 13, 1988 to be exact), my neighbor Bob Clark and I were up in the Truth or Consequences, NM area moving some beehives. It’s lonely in the desert at...
View ArticleHammering the Darkness
It’s easy to have hypotheses when you’re not a professional scientist – you just spew them out, and there they are. Sort of like how the Federal Reserve creates money and then loans it to us.I have...
View ArticleTrees
After reading Brahman Colorado's "An Ancient Forest" diary posted on Dec. 28, I have been inspired to post the following essay I wrote several years ago:
View ArticleRebutting a climate change denialist -- suggestions needed
I need to rebut a climate change denialist in my local McPaper. I am familiar with climate science, but don’t know much about different right-wing denialism strategies. I know they make up their own...
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