A world in which “we do these things because they’re easy” has one end-state: collapse. Our national philosophy now is “we do these things because they’re easy”– and relying on [ … ]

I’m a sample size of one. I’m not trying to persuade anybody so please don’t read this on the offense looking for where to land a punch, I’m just one [ … ]

About three years ago I lost 50+ pounds, I’m proud of me. I also learned that I was inspirational to others in that same way others had been inspirational to [ … ]

I believe it is clear that the main reason the economy has been growing slowly since the financial crisis is overly tight monetary policy. Inflation has been chronically low. The [ … ]

We’re “your” trustworthy news source, even though we’re all owned by six corporations or billionaires with political agendas. The “news” has loomed large in The News–a classic self-referential loop in [ … ]

Debt-dependent consumption in a world in which wages stagnate for the bottom 90% and energy costs increase as demand outstrips supply is a system with only one possible end-point: collapse. [ … ]

“When Growth is Not Enough” is the title of a recent Ben Bernanke speech in Portugal. I found it via the NYT article on the “Robocalypse”, which contained this bizarre quote [ … ]

photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Glastonbury Campsite In my salad days as vulgarity correspondent—that is to say, a reporter on the disgusting ways in which young British people so often chose [ … ]

for his full posts and archives. The solution is a new decentralized way of living that bypasses the chokepoints of centralized political and financial power. Solutions abound outside the confines of [ … ]

I watch very little television and other than business-y things, I read little of the immediate news which flares continually. If something’s only relevant the day it’s published, it’s not [ … ]