Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Plan to Fight Climate Change

“We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science, and act before it’s too late.” -- President Barack Obama

Go look at the infograph. Go watch the speech. 

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As Samuel Jackson said in Jurassic Park, "Hold on to your Butts."





Tuesday, January 22, 2013

USA?

For a mental exercise, let us assume that Rosenstock-Huessy's thesis (see prior post) is true: What does this imply about the United States of America?

I'm thinking about our concrete-past, e.g., Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, military Drones, same-sex marriage, Iraq (Shock-and-Awe)/Afghanistan wars, Roe v. Wade!!! (that case was decided on January 22, 1973 ... 40 concrete years of baby murder), Vietnam war, the Manhattan Project (and subsequent decision to use that technology on civilian populations in Japan), Manifest Destiny + Civil War+Post-Civil War Manifest Destiny (i.e., first implementation of All-out-War practices, then its re-implementation) ... Events, to name a few, from our concrete-past.