People are getting worked up about peak oil theory. I'll reply to some of the deluge of mail in the next day or two but first, three things: (1) Lawnorder, the blogger at Daily Kos who I wrote about in "Oil and Instinct," has written a follow-up posting ("Peak Oil...
I've received about a dozen replies to "Oil Supply and Demand." About half of the replies were hostile and insulting, which would seem to be a strange reaction considering that all I suggested is that oil production is not peaking and that if it were government...
I got an e-mail from Marty Sereno, professor, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, regarding "Oil and Instinct." What follows is his e-mail message (minus a last paragraph about helium) interspersed with my replies. --- Marty Sereno: I received an...
I've received some replies to my blog entry of April 3. Unfortunately, most of them rehash issues I've already addressed. I did provide a link to the pre-April 3 debate but I don't blame people for not going back and reading all that before e-mailing in their...
In Backtalk: Pete Komen's Law of Politics: Never believe anything until it is officially denied. Marcia Schneider: Ralph Nader should talk about us. Peter Yff: We don't know what really happened in Halabja. Greg Cunneen asks: If the purpose of "rendition" is not...
In Backtalk: Jay Hilgartner: There are lots of reasons to be hopeful about politics in the US today -- at least as compared to Germany in the 1930s. David Bright: Most of Kucinich's delegates did not vote for Kerry. Mark E. Moore: MoveOn.org was created by Clinton...
Today's story from Democracy Now, "Arab American Publisher Says Bush Told Him in May 2000 He Planned to 'Take Out' Iraq" reminded me of this claim by director David O. Russell (Three Kings, I (Heart) Huckabees, etc.): "I met George Bush. Terry Semel was running Warner...
In Backtalk: Greg Brownfield: deliberate irrationalism is one of the pillars of fascism -- & the Bushies have rejected the "reality-based community." Scott Erb, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington: Democracy or Republic?...
In Backtalk: Steve Vinson: the real Bush plan for the Mideast can be found in "Securing the Realm" -- which doesn't mention democracy. Tom Harper: no one spit on Vietnam vets. Leon Hadar: Britain would fail Rice's "town-square test." Cheryl Hutchinson: (Ex-communist)...
In Backtalk: Emile Meylan describes visiting his daughter Mariela at the Walter Reed Medical Center. R.T. Carpenter points out that the last Civil War widow/ pensioner died just last year. The hundreds of billions budgeted for today's wars are just the down payment....
