Juggling Dynamite

I have not cussed so much in quite some time…but here it is at long last.

Thanks greatly to Wendy, Cory, Dan, Mike, Stanley and all the many others who helped us turn geek speak codes into something appealing and comprehensible to us humans. Thanks also to the readers who offered their suggestions as to format and features. I think we have incorporated all your good ideas.

We were able to move over the archive of articles since inception in April 2007, except for the articles year to date in 2011. God knows why. For some unfathomable reason incomprehensible to us mere mortals, we have (so far at least) not been able to automatically import the 2011 articles and reader comments from the old blog platform. For this I am sorry. We have manually moved over the articles for the month of July. And may well do more of this to complete the archive in the next little while.

Blessings to all concerned. I need a drink.

You don’t have to believe that humans are bringing about climate change to see the huge opportunties in green, domestic, self-sustaining energy. This is the biggest no brainer since the wheel.

A low-carbon economy is also a national security issue, a great business opportunity, even just a way to keep families together. As The New York Times writer Thomas Freedman says in the movie: “It’s the most patriotic thing you can be, do, think or feel today. Green is the new red, white and blue.” Here is the film’s official web site.

This documentary came out in 2010, but I only found it recently. It is longish at 46 minutes but a good summary of the origins of our credit crisis, as well as how rescue efforts have been directed and why they have done more harm than good to date.