I have just read two posts(?) on the Huffington Post – bleh. But I tend to pick the low-hanging fruit in my pursuit for news these days, and I am just looking for something to link to so that you don’t think I am making this up. The first story is about Obama opening coastlines [...]
My household employment numbers recently went from 50% to 100% (I took a job) so there may be a drop off in content during the week, particularly once it gets warm out and I start installing skylights and gardening. However, I am resolved to keep this website going, if for no other reason than it [...]
When I think about my future, the biggest component of it is community. I want to be around people that are basically decent, rational people that know how to work and are not interested in telling other people how to live their lives. Sounds simple enough right? Well, you would be surprised how hard it [...]
This is inspired by two things really, the first being this post on Ashes Ashes, and also the whole content of the blog Peak Oil Debunked. The biggest hurdle that I think we face in this country is not geological or economic. It is psychological. There is a prevailing mentality in this country that questions [...]
The only real player left in the economy is the US government. Rich people have dumped their equity and commodity positions and followed the herd move into US treasuries. They are doing this and will continue to do so for a while because that way the government can take all of the losses while all [...]
I am writing this and I don’t have any media on. I wanted to get this out before I let any of today in (since most of these stories are backed up from the weekend or earlier). I expect huge losses to begin rolling in now that O is seated. Maybe give it a few [...]
There is plenty of noise out there that since oil prices have gone down, the threat of peak oil has went the way of Y2K, Planet X, Sinbad, and all other threats to society as we know it. Of course, there is a fundamental misunderstanding about what peak oil is, and what it has to [...]
My Dad passed along a link to Certified Energy Consultants, which looks like a tame enough website. He thought they might have the kind of green collar job I am looking for so I checked it out. As far as I can tell, they only sell something called a power factor correction device which I [...]
I like to read Jim Kunstler’s website. I first heard about him on Art Bell’s radio show back in 2004, and I have kept track of him since. When I looked back through some of what he had written just after 9/11, I was a little disturbed. But, I still like him. He is sharp [...]
consumers of doom,
The thing I have noticed most so far in 2009 is the creepy Barack Obama cult of personality being created in America. Go to any mall, and you will see stylized pictures of him on posters and t-shirts. Talk to almost any supporter, and you will hear an utter lack of intellectual curiosity. [...]
