Today, The Guardian reported on an analysis of life expectancy by neighborhood in 500 American cities. In that study, Chicago stood out, for all the wrong reasons. The predominantly white, lakeside Streeterville district is a lovely place to live — for a long time, to ninety. A few miles away, in the mostly black, Englewood neighborhood, …
Environmental Rights
Midwest Flooding: Waters Receding
Offutt Air Base in Omaha had to move planes to Lincoln as the runways flooded. Side note: I was born there and pretty sure my blood runs Air Force Blue. My brother and niece were stranded here. They came out for spring break and then the town they and my parents live in became an …
My Views On Nuclear Power
Last night we learned that Cory Booker feels that nuclear power will be important in our response to global warning. So let me give a short summary of my feelings about nuclear power. They haven’t changed since I wrote this in August 2017. We need nuclear power. I think that we can make it work. …
By Their Works Shall Ye Know Them
With Trump and his Trumpkins — aka the entire Republican power structure — the extremes of grotesque behavior serve a purpose: in the disgust they evoke, they distract us from the point of the whole exercise. That would be, of course, extracting as much cash as possible through the exercise of arbitrary power. Today’s example …
King Knut Knew What He Was Doing. These Bozos Don’t
Today’s climate change updates in the LALALALALALALA I Can’t Hear You file… Exhibit A: National Park Service officials have deleted every mention of humans’ role in causing climate change in drafts of a long-awaited report on sea level rise and storm surge, contradicting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s vow to Congress that his department is not …
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Apocalypse Very Soon
Via Alexander C. Kaufman at HuffPo, we learn that the EPA has decided that we’ve all just got to sit back and fry — and like it too, dammit: The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday evening sent employees a list of eight approved talking points on climate change from its Office of Public Affairs ― guidelines …
Browser Outrage Dump
Time for another thread, I’d say, and I don’t have the functioning synapses to come up with anything new to say about the moral and intellectual crater that is both the Republican Party and the right’s public intellection bunch. (Did you know that Ron Johnson’s mug is being considered as the “After” portrait in the …