Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Jun 24th, 2011
On this lovely rainy day (no doubt caused by Global Warming) I am cozying up to the Bill McKibben reader. In it is this gem (among thousands of others): So here’s my plan. Let’s give global warming a new, scarier name. El Piquante Grande perhaps? Or La Chaleur Enorme. Do these sound malevolent enough? How […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 24th, 2011
So, when we cut payroll taxes, you would think that the accounting captures this in reduced revenues to the social security trust fund, right? The employee’s share of the payroll was cut by 2 percent in December. The gimmick stems from the fact that the uncollected revenues from the tax cut were still credited to […]
Posted in Environment on Jun 24th, 2011
I promise no more (long) posts on Silent Spring after this one! Carson’s most emphatic point in Silent Spring is to urge us to reduce or eliminate our use of chemical agents for dealing with plant and insect “pests.” The science of the last 50 years seems to have vindicated those folks who took a […]
