Yesterday was Opening Day of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. To mark the day, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist offered up this video in which he’s certainly looking tanned and, dare we say it, senatorial.
Let’s see, canned goods, batteries, radio, cellphone — yep, I s’pose I’m ready for a “safe hurricane season,” Charlie. Thanks!
My [...]

All I’m saying is it’s hard not to notice parallels with Katrina when you hear about flooding, evacuations, and levee breaks. But there are several key differences with the Fargo flood.
For one, the area is about 93 percent white, which could affect how some respond to the victims. For another, a competent president is in [...]

Ike arrives in Cuba
Hurricane Ike devastated parts of Cuba and money is needed now to help people as they struggle to survive. Because of our country’s idiotic stance toward the aging and ailing Fidel Castro, it’s hard to get relief to those who need it.
The State Department allows only a very few organizations to assist, [...]

Local news here in Southern California is reporting that upwards of 1 million people have been evacuated because of the fire storms. Last night, when the number was about half that, Keith Olbermann suggested that this could be the largest forced migration of Americans since the Civil War.
“I am very confident in our ability to [...]

How can governments, including ours, say it would hurt their economies to fix climate change? Don’t they realize, as Al Gore pointed out in the scene in An Inconvenient Truth with the gold bricks, that losing life as we know it not only costs more but trumps, well, everything?
PAX World Mutual Funds’ Julie Gorte, senior [...]

On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall near New Orleans, all the ink was about the progress, and lack thereof, in restoring the city and the rest of the Gulf coast.
We live in an era of failed leadership. Corrupt and incompetent politicians. Thieving CEOs. Priests as pedophiles. Media monopolies. A president’s unpopular, intractable [...]

One of the hallmarks of the Bush administration has been its willingness to outsource everything from IRS tax collections to intelligence agency functions to Social Security to the Iraq War. Now we find out that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is skipping down the outsourcing path as well.
The state of Texas has already given [...]

By all indications, 2007 will be the year frogs rain down from the sky and sinkholes swallow the Rockies.
My area is under a tropical storm watch. The first named storm of the season is here. She is Tropical Storm Andrea, with top sustained winds of 45 mph. This is huge.
For those of you who don’t [...]

The Sierra Club is reporting even more depressing news on a day that included the devastation of honeybees and no end to problems with the nation’s food supply.
Get a load of this:
Have any doubts about the motivation for this treachery? It doesn’t apply to Texas. Nuff said.
Jaws dropped last week when the DOE proposed its [...]