As every critically-aware person well knows, we are facing some pretty daunting challenges; the most pressing is clearly climate change, more urgent with each passing day as we are regularly reminded of the ravages it is wreaking around the world. Resp…
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Politics and its Discontents: Apples and Mandarins
The logic of Fox commentators is, to say the least, difficult for an old fella like me to follow: Recommend this Post
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Commemorating Joe Romm’s “Language Intelligence”
Joe Romm‘s book Language Intelligence is now out in the US (but maddeningly, remains unavailable in Canada). Early reviews proclaim it as both a rhetorical masterpiece, and a masterpiece on rhetoric. To commemorate the book in my small way, I dug up a piece I wrote for a competition on Dr. Romm’s
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Marcellus Money: Statehouse Bought and Sold by Shale Gas Industry in PA
marcellusmoney.jpeg Consider it official: the Pennsylvania statehouse has been bought and sold by the shale gas industry, confirmed today, yet again, by MarcellusMoney.org. In a press release, Marcellus Money, a project of Common Cause of Pennsylvania and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania laid out the sobering facts about the frackers' stranglehold
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