Category Archives: climate change

A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!

Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading

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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading

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So what’s doing in Greenland?

Anybody who’s still riding on Trump’s centuries-old train, i.e., the Oh Let’s Just Take Over This Country Because We Want It train (it’s a local), should take a look at this December 2024 Harper’s Findings: A global 10.88-millihertz monochromatic very-long-period … Continue reading

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