Archive for June, 2009
Wish I Had Known…
That eastbound buses on K street only run every half hour during the afternoon rush hour on June 30, 2009 and are jam packed with tremendously overweight people.
I seriously watched 20 buses go by going north, south, and west before any of the 3 lines going east arrived.
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Tags: DC, Downtown DC, K Street
The Horror
Given the harsh realites of the 20th century I’m often surprised that this type of narrative isn’t more common:
But it should be said clearly that today’s sense of outrage about the depredations of the Bush administration is in part about the nature of the depredations, and in part about the fact that our ethical senses [...]
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Tags: War, World War II
Things I Don’t Believe
That none of the good ole boys that have risen to high office throughout the history of South Carolina ever cheated on their wives.
I mean Strom Thurmond had a secret child and married a beauty pageant winner 40 years his younger.
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Tags: Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Big Picture on Climate Change
One thing that’s daunting about working on Climate Change is the multitude of factors which you need to consider. Crafting and sustaining legislation to address Climate Change will take place of most if this century and actually stabilizing the world’s carbon trajectory involves coordinating the entire global economy. So when you talk about the big [...]
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Tags: Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Support a Public Plan
Matthew Ygelsias does an excellent job discussing the unfortunate politics of including a public plan in health care reform as demonstrated by this chart.
Happily for politicians contemplating the inclusion of such a plan, a robust public option is also the best way available to control costs and minimize the need for new taxes. So [...]
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Tags: Health Care Reform, Public Plan
Both the Nationals and Orioles won yesterday, and both are currently winning streaks.
They told me climate change would increase the chances of freak occurrences like this, but I didn’t think it would happen so soon…
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Tags: Baseball, MLB, Nationals
In Other News
The WordPress Dashboard tells somebody found this blog by typing “cat condom” into a search engine.
I have no recollection of writing about condoms or cats, much less the two together. But Google’s search engine is way smarter then me, so if they reached this blog using Google and the search term “cat condom” my [...]
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It was pretty predictable that the years of idol worship surrounding Alan Greenspan would be followed by widespread and virulent condemnation, which would in turn be followed yet further revisionism suggesting he was not in fact responsible for all bad things.
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Tags: Federal Reserve, Financial System
Back in the day I was interviewed by a Washington Post reporter at a mobilization for global justice (anti-IMF/World Bank) protest. The reporter asked 4 times if I was disappointed at the size of the protest. I answered:
“No. No. No. No.”
Obviously my quote didn’t make the paper, because it wasn’t what he wanted to [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Climate Progress, Global Warming, NY Times
DC Monsoon
It’s raining for like the 29th time in last 30 days.
Time to build a boat?
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Tags: Rain, Washington D.C., Weather
Twitter Revolution
I’m generally enthusiastic about the potential of new communication technologies like twitter, facebook, etc, to facilitate political uprising. But it should be mentioned that it leaves us highly vulnerable to misinformation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an awful person and the sooner he’s off the world stage the better, but that doesn’t transform his opponents into automatically honest [...]
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Tags: Iran, Twitter Revolution
Worst. Team. Ever?
It’s hard to escape the conclusion the Washington Nationals television announcers have completely lost interest in the Nationals season. Can’t blame them. Early in the season they seemed mortified and disgusted, now it’s an active disinterest in the team sort of reminiscent of the Bob Uecker character in Major League.
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Tags: Washington Nationals
National Energy Policy
There’s been a lot of talk regarding which environmental groups support and oppose Waxman-Markey. It’s easy to see why the current compromise bill is unpopular in some circles, the bill as written is far from ideal using most any criteria. At the same time the Waxman-Markey would launch a entire new trajectory on energy policy, [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Here is Katharine Mieszkowski reporting for Salon.com on new climate change health impacts research:
Climate change is currently killing 300,000 people a year around the world, while seriously impacting the lives of hundreds of millions more, states a controversial new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The report, “Human Impact Report: Climate Change — [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum, UN Human Impact Report, Waxman-Markey
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