Where is everyone? Crowded on your doorstep if you believe the group NumbersUSA , a group dedicated to reducing all immigration, even legal immigration. (I heard about them from this NPR story .) Whatever their real reasons for opposing immigration may be - misanthropy, nostalgia, bigotry, fear of change - their argument about environmental degradation in the USA is a lot of hooey. The biggest problem with our treatment of the natural world here in the US of A is our history of gobbling up space as if there’s no tomorrow! Consider these maps:
This is a map of the population density (people per square mile) in the lower 48 with 2004 Census data. Note that nearly all of the land is settled at the lowest density on the map, less than 250 people per square mile. (Much of it is at much less than that!) The high concentrations are where the cities are. If we weren’t so violently opposed to city life…
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Post Date: 2008-09-17 16:06:18
What a topsy-turvy few weeks in the news it’s been! Let me mention my highlights:
Federal Government declares it will let Lehman fail to protect the principles of the free market. Rep. Barney Frank declares Sept. 15 Free Market Day. Sept. 16 Federal Government effectively nationalizes AIG. This under a Republican president!
John (Keating Five) McCain, the Republican candidate, lambastes the “greed” of Wall Street and calls for more government reg...
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Post Date: 2008-09-11 11:52:34
In college, I read Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy to gain some general intellectual background to Chaucer and medieval literature. I liked it quite a lot then, and lately, it seems to be cropping up here and there (including as the philosophical inspiration to the protaganist of that entertaining and vastly overrated work, The Confederacy of Dunces ) so once again I am reading the last work of that unfortunate man. It’s as good as I remember...
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Post Date: 2008-09-05 13:42:24
Yeah, so, Krugman has a column today about the skill with which the Republicans manipulate feelings of resentment - or shall we say resentiment? - in our body politic. Isn’t this the fuel that fed the fire of Hitler’s rise? The simmering anger of the better-off-than-workers-but-not-well-off-enough-not-to-be-worried class?Â
The key to this feeling in politics is that it isn’t logical. People feel pissed off, pissed on, and treated unfairly - and they are! ...
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