Business Week - "The Frozen Economy"

Fossil fuels in some ways remind me of amphetamines...Amphetamine pills, like the fossil fuels, are enormously stimulating. The taker doesn't tire, seems to think and in general to function better and faster, and is happier. But people who take the pills can become dependent on them, which is unfortunate because their supply cannot be guaranteed ( Read more... )

Price of a gallon of unleaded gas at the Little Store (Friday Harbor, WA):

7/5: $4.81 (...and it'll top $5.00 by The Dark Knight's opening weekend)

Kunstler always scares me. I think it’s because he doesn’t come across as foaming at the mouth.

If you haven’t read The Long Emergency , you should ( Read more... )

Price of a gallon of unleaded gas at the Little Store (Friday Harbor, WA):

6/22 - 6/27: $4.79

Price of a gallon of unleaded gas at the Little Store (Friday Harbor, WA):

6/16 - 6/21: $4.79

I’m going to try not to let sudden fame swell my head ...especially since it still reads like something my college writing class would've torn into like a pack of feral dogs.

Price of a gallon of unleaded gas at the Little Store (Friday Harbor, WA):

6/9 - 6/11: $4.65

6/12: $4.68

6/13-6/14: $4.79

Price of unleaded gas at the Little Store (Friday Harbor, WA):

6/2-6/5: $4.62

6/7: $4.65

We watched Jesus Camp. The woman who home schooled terrified me. Draw her religious beliefs out of the mix and she’d still terrify me. In no way was she qualified to instruct her children, a poodle, a dandruff flake, anything. She was the living equivalent of one of those scheming small minded supporting characters in a Stephen King novel who ( Read more... )