Drought status in the U.S. as of 2015. Note the color-coded legend in the lower-right portion of the graphic (source; click to enlarge) by Gaius PubliusI've written in the past about two of the most climate-vulnerable regions of the U.S., Florida and the American Southwest.
Neil Young singing to the junkies for oil. He's seen the needle and the damage done.by Gaius PubliusThe oil train dominoes are falling. Seems no one touched by oil at the transport end wants any part of it. Pipelines leak, 100- and 200-car trains blow up and burn, and fracking destroys health, lives and ground water.The key in all of these battles is local control, exercised by the very people in place to be the suffering recipients of all the damage done. Tony Bizjak writing at the Sacramento Bee (my emphasis):
The Daily Show's nuanced take on the 9/11 Justice bill that Obama vetoed and Congress passed anyway, overriding his veto. Why might Congress reverse that veto-override? Give it a listen.by Gaius Publius"Why would [28 senators] vote to override the thing and then go back against it? Because it's not about what they feel.
Map depicting the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (source: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)by Gaius Publius"The question now is whether we will have the courage to act [on climate change] before it’s too late." –Barack Obama,
Senator Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2008 promising to use the threat of presidential unilateral withdrawal to force renegotiation of NAFTA by Gaius PubliusI mentioned something in passing, on the way to make another point in this piece, that deserves to be a point on its own.
Cartoon by Steve Sack ©2016, The Minneapolis Star Tribune (source)by Gaius PubliusA follow-up to this recent piece — "A Clinton Speech to Millennials That Will Work" — in which my hoped-for Hillary Clinton says, among other things, that she will start a criminal investig
The cost of college compared to other consumer costs, 1985–2011 (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius Publius "I feel like a lot of the stuff Hillary does, you can see when she is trying to, like, earn the youth vote, and it just doesn't work," Nick Chanko, 20, who goes to school in Montreal but votes in New York,
Cost of college, 1985 through 2012, compared to other consumer costs (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusI'd like to put a simple idea in front of you, a connection between the predatory student debt scam and the military.
President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Salman walk together to a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster (source)by Gaius PubliusThis story is straight-forward but has two interesting wrinkles.
