“We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn’t have much time Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water, Fire in the sky…” — […]
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“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with […]
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We trust that FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Guard would deploy to manage any catastrophe. Would they? … We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain— that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the […]
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It’s cynically called “Corexit,” and it’s not “basically dish soap” What does it say about the oil industry in general, and the Standard Oil-Exxon-BP partnership that brought the chemical compound to market in particular, that they call their product “Corexit” (as in “corrects it”)? Do they really think anyone will believe that spraying 2 million […]
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In the 21st Century era of global warming, we must cherish our proximate ecologies Some of you who read my ULTIMATE ERROR blog here regularly know about my modest cottage out here in unincorporated Osceola County, Florida, near the shores of East Lake Tohopekaliga. My old haunt with the loose floorboards and front porch with […]
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Suspect from the beginning, U.S. secretary of state ousted after finishing business with Kremlin During the 2016 election, the Russian president made it very clear he was interested in an outcome that would spell the end of Obama-era sanctions. From the Republican side, he received assurances, perhaps even before the election night results were in. […]
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Mother Earth speaks to us in our own backyards Some or other slat must have slapped its neighbor then rectified and settled back into where it sat. My cabin in nowhere-ville Florida suffers from loose and creaky boards. Gravity and all manner of heat seem to push and pull on it as punishment merely for […]
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What can citizens do when those sworn to protect and serve us simply… don’t? I see a fascinating subtext in the case of a Broward County Sheriff deputy who resigned after being accused of failing to take action during the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school last week. Sure, we hear a lot […]
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Questions of bribery must arise when assessment contractor gets it preposterously wrong “Return your sword to its place, for all who will take up the sword will die by the sword.” — Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 26:52 We live in the United States of America, don’t we, my neighbors? At some point, in this great […]
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When it comes to the nation’s abandoned mines, cleanup can be anything but clean The varieties of tragedies at the United States’ half-million abandoned mine sites boggle the mind. Each layer of disaster compounds the damage of every other layer. Each of the 500,000 estimated mine sites is a multi-million-dollar clustermuck left for taxpayers and […]
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