Prof. Goose here. Dear Kleinians, you’ve been great. I hope you’ve seen from my posts that the issue of petroleum’s imminent peak of supply matters and will matter more and more to your lives over time. I also hope you’ll continue learning about this complex topic at the many news sources available (e.g., peakoil.com, energybulletin.net, […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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A Few Words About the Rove Statements
As posed to Cheney: BLITZER: Let me read to you from comments that Karl Rove … A lot of Democrats are pretty irate about those comments. They want him to retract them. How the question would have been posed if Karl Rove were a Democrat: BLITZER: Let me read to you from comments that Karl […]
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The Democrat Elevator Pitch
I was thinking of calling this post Talking Points Memo, but that name is already in use. Atrios points to AmericaBlog issuing a call for better Democrat message control. It requires an echo chamber. But, bloggers are probably too political. You know how too many Democrats and progressive groups in DC are — they do […]
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The Sound of My Voice
(Hello, Kleinians. Shakes here. This post, crossposted from Shakespeare’s Sister, is perhaps a bit unusual for Ezra’s place, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.)
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In Praise of Dirt
I’ve seen the recent Star Wars prequels. Besides the usual criticisms, I feel that there was something missing from the visual feel of the new movies. And that thing was dirt.
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A Policy Linkfest
Hi there folks, Prof Goose from TOD here. I woke up with a nasty allergy headache this morning. So, I’m just going to put together a linkfest for you instead of shrinking and integrating articles for you today. These links include discussions of China’s proposed acquisition of Unocal, gas taxes/prices, the Democatic New Apollo energy […]
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The Small Changes in Consumption Can Make the Peak Flatter…For a Little While…
Hey, Prof. Goose from The Oil Drum here. As I mentioned in my first couple of posts, there are many constituent parts of the peak oil/energy issue. These parts include production, consumption, policy, mass psychology, environmental/green concerns, corporate/business interests, geology and exploration, and finally alternative sources of energy. One of the things we’ve been doing […]
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Attack of the Undead Network
Speaking of lifeless corpses shambling around in various states of decomposition, what the hell is CNN becoming? This is just sad: In their drive to become the National Local News channel, they are dragging previously anonymous novelties in front of their cameras in order to suck out a few extra days of life. The damage […]
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The Zombie Myth
Yesterday PZ Myers threatened me with an attack by a zombie. Zombies are perhaps the movie monster that I find most compelling. I’ve actually had nightmares about zombies. As a child I was afraid of ghosts, and I am not afraid of zombies in the same way that I was afraid of ghosts, indeed, I […]
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Consumption and the Facts about our Oil Laden Food Chain
(This post is by Ianqui from The Oil Drum). That oil is consumed by public and private transportation and industry is a no brainer. However, another, perhaps more important reason petroleum is so vital to our economy, beyond transportation, is that it takes a lot of fossil fuel just to produce the food that we […]
