There are many ways of describing the fiasco of suburbia, but these days I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. I say this because American suburbia requires an infinite supply of cheap energy in order to function and we have now entered a permanent global energy [...]
Barack Obama for President Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of [...]
Only Bill Moyers can weave a thread so convincingly, bringing together both finance and sport while elucidating the great theme of loss which so defines our times. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09192008/watch3.html
I’m still alive – in fact, I’ve been feeling very alive these past few weeks, so excuse the lack of postings. A brief update: I have secured housing in New Orleans; I will be sharing a small house about a mile from campus with two other guys. The process was not easy but it seems [...]
Comment from KO on Prop 8
Well said, Keith.