Poetry, Politics, Collapse

• Lebensraum, too? August 24, 2010
  Here's a new BBC pop-sci article on the End-Cretaceous Extinction Event and its aftermath, the rise of the mammals. Fine. What's odd is this: the claim in the headline makes no sense, and the article ends with a fine quotation from another paleobiologist, easily demolishing the silly idea. Here's the piece: Space is the final frontier for evol […]
• Each person’s precious individual freedom is destroying the world. July 25, 2010
  My Politics In America, the “Republican” is usually raised by an authoritarian Father figure whom he mentally splits into a bad authority (the government) he hates, and a good authority (the corporations) he respects, without seeing that they are—but should not be—identical. Hamlet, too smart for that, has the sense to be angry with his mother and his wi […]