Today my current RSS reader of choice alerted me to an article at one of my favorite publications, the Christian Science Monitor. The title of the article says it all:
“Top five greenest nations on the planet.”
Naturally, whenever you read something like that, your bullshit detector should be beeping and flashing, because apart from the [...]

Well, I’ve just started reading this book called The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin. (Side note: where are the editors when it comes to book titles these days…sheesh.)
Anyway, I am only three chapters in, but I understand the gist [...]

Well, even though reporter insertion inside Iraq is a million times better than it was during the Gulf War in 1991, the press coverage here in the United States is predictably abysmal.
I would say it’s an improvement over the television coverage during the Gulf War, in that at least we are able to see images [...]

I feel bad for the Iraqis.
I mean, really, come on….they’re governed by an asshole. (Yes, I’m only calling Saddam an asshole…the Hitler references are really a bit much.)
As if that wasn’t enough, they’ve lived under awful economic conditions partly caused by horrible sanctions from the West that the Clinton *and* Bush administrations (1 and [...]

More reading of the Einstein book has uncovered this gem, written in a message to the Progressive Education Association in 1934:
“Security for the United States, as for other countries, lies only in a satisfactory solution of the world peace problem.”
The gist of his little essay was that, by virtue of our geography, American schools had [...]

Though the dust settles, the haze hasn’t really lifted from this city.
Now that my neighborhood is open again to traffic, it feels more normal, but there’s something different about this place now.
Most of my friends and I walk around, and we still all stop every now and then, looking south, I guess in a feeble [...]

OK, the title might be a little harsh, but ever since the Holocaust happened, it’s been pretty much true. (See, I feel I even have to say that in order to cover my ass.)
They’ve become an untouchable ethnic group – considered above reproach – simply because there was a highly public, disgusting perpetration of [...]