Off the Grid in Minneapolis

If you pay attention to such things, there has been a resurgence in the idea of Free Energy. The concept basically, is that all the energy w...

Oh right, there's that. In a comment on my last post, a regular reader offered a link to this documentary, Rage Against the Machine . As...

I've had the occasion lately to think about what liberty means. The word famously appears in the Declaration of Independence, "that...

It seems the first two posts of this blog in 2012 are meant to provide correction and clarity. Two posts ago, in my 2012 Forecast, I mention...

I need to correct what I perceive as a factual error in my last post. It went like this: "If the precession of the equinox is on a 26...

James Kunstler is in the habit of issuing a forecast for the coming year, so I thought I might give it a try. While I admire him and his wor...

Whatever one might think about the future of humanity, it is hard to argue that we are not in a place currently, of mounting, epic crises. T...

My trip to Dallas, for the Professional Baseball Winter Meetings Trade Show, began at the airport here in Minneapolis, where I inadvertently...

If this Black Friday was not a fine example of the orgy of enthusiasm with which we have embraced the decline of Western Civilization, then ...

Meandering through HuffPost Tuesday, I came across a piece from Diane Francis, Editor-at-Large, The National Post: " Europe Boots Out I...