A trout fisherman’s creel holds more memories than fish – a fact as verifiable as the DEET on a fisherman’s lips on a North Country spring. The taste for adding more lasts a creel owner’s lifetime. Spring renews this ritual drive, just as it does the greening of forest understory by opening day. Father’s wicker…
Local newspapers once got most of their money from want ads in the back section. Craigslist proceeded to destroy that revenue stream. I like Craigslist better in many ways but it’s introduction kicked off the destruction of print news as we knew it for a century or more. Papers of record, more dependent upon large…
What can you gain from making what you own, rent, or consume more energy efficient? Typically such gains mean buying expensive, longer lasting things, increased personal comfort and security in extremes of weather, lower energy bills, added home market value, and so on. For some, gain might include reduced personal guilt. (I’m leaving out social…
As covered today in the National Journal and elsewhere, approximately 180,000 megawatts of US coal-burning capacity have been taken off-line in the past five years, to which we may now add 3,000+ megawatts of coal-generating capacity TVA plans to shutter. Example: one of these plants to be closed by TVA, known as the Paradise Fossil…
America’s middle class will not be saved by low oil prices brought about by Bakken Shale and Alberta Tar Sands Oil booms. Nor by the low price of natural gas. I’ve some anecdotes to illustrate why. Let’s begin with latex or ’emulsion’ paint, a base raw material for which is commonly propene. Propene in turn…
Not long after tropical storm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore, right wing radicals and prominent Republican Party members reacted with disdain or outrage over NJ Governor Chris Christie publicly showing appreciation to President Obama. Reporters on live TV reminded viewers that ‘experts tell us that climate change can not be identified as the cause of…
Wall Street Journal reports that Twitter has made a reasonable initial stock offering. STOP I’ll bet very few of the investor class tweet a lot, personally. Their minions do it for them. STOP Same for any one else who who puts in a long work week using their computer. STOP. Guess which demographic increasingly is…
© J.Laumer Which bridge grips the imagination most and where do the trolls reside? Questions to help understand mass vertigo in the early anthropocene. With each promising answer, I find myself crossing both object and reflection. As I imagine others do, I’ve long pondered the root cause of medical vertigo. This, you may know, is something…
Vertigo Nation 