Whether Trump or Clinton Wins the US Election, What Follows Is Up To Us
‘A politician is not a given. Each one is in part what we make them, by pushing, blocking, pressuring, encouraging, fighting, reframing, emphasizing, organizing.’
US politics
The Boiling Pot
On the surface, things appear normal but beneath the lid, a pot of trends is coming to a boil.
Peak oil notes – Mar 7
A midweek update.
The Hard Road Ahead
The latest round of political theater in Washington DC over the automatic budget cuts enacted in the 2011 debt ceiling compromise—the so-called “sequester”—couldn’t have been better timed, at least as far as this blog is concerned. It’s hard to imagine better evidence, after all, that the American political process has finally lost its last fingernail grip on reality.