How can your average item of food travel 1,500 miles to your plate? Cheap oil, that's how. But be careful how you count the carbon generated by the delivery of your food. The amount of "oil in our food" suggests that we will be eating a lot more local food,…
It's incredible that to be a candidate for President of the United States, you need to know more than how to run a country. You need to know the Bible. Oh, and this is only true if you're a Democrat (I would love to see a shrewd reporter hit John…
I was surprised yesterday to find a post by Jerry Pournelle (well known SF author and technology columnist) on MensNewsDaily (a starkly conservative news magazine site with pretensions of middle-of-the-roadism). His column, Intelligent Design: Answers and Questions, is openly favorable to the premise that Intelligent Design and Global Warming denial…
I'm currently reading a new book by Susan Linn, The Case for Make-Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World (2008). The main point of the book is that modern parents tend to over-schedule their children and otherwise deprive them of time for creative play. For instance, many parents are letting…
When Barack Obama opts of out pubic financing for his campaign, the media screams bloody murder. Why isn't the corporate media admitting that John McCain has done the same thing? Arianna Huffington explains: Cut to Super Tuesday, when McCain had the Republican nomination all but wrapped up. Suddenly, he didn't…