Radical steps needed to combat climate change
This is a ‘promoted comment‘ from the post “Climate Change is Real and it’s Heating Up‘. It has been edited for clarity, with sources added. ~by mclaren Excellent post by Kain, as usual. The...
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Heating Up
“Neither Governor Perry nor the bulk of Texas’ citizens may be interested in climate change, but climate change is interested in them.” ~ Matt Yglesias, commenting on the massive drought and terrible wildfires ravaging...
Prop 13 Is for Lovers…of Property Taxes!
Last week’s “OC Watchdog” piece by Teri Sforza in the OC Register pokes the Prop 13 bear, suggesting it is time Californians withdraw their opposition to higher property taxes, by focusing on the familiar...
The Magician King Open Thread
I’m going to have more to say about this, but for now anyone who has read the book should chime in with initial thoughts, impressions, etc. in the comments below.
The Jobless ‘Recovery’
It’s worth reading Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery’s article at Mother Jones on the ‘great speed-up’. The looming possibility of a double-dip recession notwithstanding, the economic recovery so far has been decidedly lopsided. While corporate profits are up, the American workforce fared...
California’s Nanny State Nanny Law
The California Assembly, faced with such difficult tasks as prison overcrowding, the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation, one of the worst business climates in the nation, and a broken education financing policy (article...
No, George Lucas, Noooooo!
Regarding the hubbub about George Lucas adding a “KAAAHN!”-like “Nooo!” in Return of the Jedi, I have a hard time figuring out which I find more head scratching: that George Lucas cared enough about...
What’s Your “Go-To” Lesson in Politics?
Here’s a question I was asked at a dinner party recently that made me wonder how people here might answer. The question: What is the single lesson you have learned in your life that...
So, what’d I miss?
Aloha, everybody! After two weeks away basking in the tropical sun a couple of islands away from where our country’s Kenyan usurper’s overlords faked his birth, I am just now doing a quick review...
Friday Night Jukebox: Japan Edition
I figured the readership might enjoy a sampling of Japanese music in the spirit of Rufus’s enlightening seminar on music France. Here is X-Japan, commonly referred to as “X”. X’s music is one quarter...
Tom Van Dyke joins ‘Notes from Babel’
Tom Van Dyke will be blogging with Tim Kowal at League sub-blog Notes from Babel. Please welcome him here.
George Lucas Strikes Back
“American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history. People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise...
Optimism Inc.
Me: Not to sound like too much of an optimist – because resource depletion does keep me up nights, too – but I do think innovation and green technology and new ways of crafting...
Ron Paul and Libertarianism
Will Wilkinson makes a telling observation about Ron Paul: Yet it irks me that, as far as most Americans are concerned, Ron Paul is the alpha and omega of the libertarian creed. If you...
Kevin Drum’s Jobs Plan
Kevin Drum wants a $1 trillion infrastructure investment to kick-start the economy. I think that even if you take the stimulus argument out of the picture – infrastructure investment is slow and not exactly...
We Need Countercyclical Spending, Not Counterintuitive Spending Cuts
Matt Yglesias points out once again that since we can borrow money at basically negative real interest rates, we should do it. We should do it to stimulate the economy, put money into infrastructure...
Peak Growth?
David Roberts has an excellent conversation with…well he’s got voices in his head (Smith and Daly) having an internal dialogue over a very important question: Can we keep growing the economy in light of...
Beginning in the Middle
Professor Feminism has done me the great honor of inviting me to be his newest sidekick here at the League. Since I will now be an official regular around these parts, and no longer...
