I’m sending you all away. For one thing, I’m busy and woefully short of advance posts. But most importantly, there’s something I think you need to read. It’s Maryam Namazie’s speech at the World Atheist Conference. You really should read it in its entirety. But I’ll put an excerpt here, because I believe this bit …
Category Archive: civilization
Apr 11 2011
Local Geology Kicks Project’s Arse
Confession: this post is mostly an excuse to post my super-awesome front loader and dump truck photo: Check out the dirt-dumping action! How awesome is that? I’ve never had so much fun photographing a dump truck before. Comes to that, I don’t think I’ve ever photographed a dump truck before. But when Cujo and I …
Oct 07 2010
Stuff Comes from Somewhere
Back before I distracted by the shiny new car and purchasing of same, our own George W. had a post up that really forced some thinking. And it’s all because he was up at 4 in the morning thinking about bolts: Where’s the nickel (which plates the bolt) mined? What’s the state of mine-safety technology? …
Aug 01 2010
Now That’s An Engineering Project!
When we went to Arizona last year, my intrepid companion and I crossed Hoover Dam. It’s not an experience I care to repeat any time soon. Lots of traffic funneled through an itty-bitty road sucks mightily. But considering we weren’t getting anywhere anyway, we pulled over to snap some pictures and ogle the Hoover Bridge, …
Dec 06 2008
Corporate Responsibility: BoA Gets It Right
Sometimes, just sometimes, corporations do things that make me proud: This summer, after months of conversations, some top executives from Bank of America agreed to accompany NRDC staff on a fact-finding trip to Appalachia. In July we flew them over moonscaped mine sites in West Virginia, took them to Kayford Mountain for a closer look …
Sep 26 2008
Condemned to Repeat
EX PRAETERITO PRAESENS PRVDENTER AGIT NI FUTUR- ACTIONE DETVRPET History became a living thing in Roz Ashby’s and Ken Meier’s hands. On the first day of Western Civilization I, they handed out a quote and asked us to date it. It was a typical “kids these days” rant, full of complaints about their manners, their …
Aug 16 2008
What the Fuck Can I Possibly Say?
I work with a wonderful young woman from Serbia. She’s one of the most competent people I’ve ever met: practical, insightful, and wise. She frequently leaves me tongue-tied, but never more than when we were on a break the other day, when she asked me, “What do you think should be done about what’s happening …
Aug 11 2008
Canada Kicks Self-Righteous Ass
The Westboro Baptist Church, apparently bored with picketing American servicemembers’ funerals, decided to head north for a Canadian jaunt. One of the planned stops on their grand tour was the funeral of Tim McLean, the victim of a horrific attack that left him beheaded on a bus. According to the raving fuckwits of the WBC, …
Aug 02 2008
Thoughtful (If Snarky) Answers to Thoughtless Questions
One of the things that stood out like a red coat on a soldier during the whole cracker debacle was the sheer quantity of snivelling. In a thousand permutations, the charming and concerned Christians raised the cry: “Why don’t you desecrate the Koran? Why are you always picking on Christianity? Wah!” Religious fuckwits being religious …
Jul 30 2008
The Right-Wing Death Machine
I’ve been meaning to do several posts: one on the shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, one on the disturbing rhetoric of violence and death that so obsesses the neocons, and an article in the National Review that spews hate even while it’s preaching tolerance. A post on Dawg’s Blawg made me realize …
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