What with all the oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, I think it’s time that we get serious about alternative energy. Here in northwestern Michigan I hear a lot of talk about why one form or another won’t work; not enough sun for solar, not enough wind for turbines, we have to go with biomass because of its affordability. How about a combination? I know that no single approach will solve all of our problems, but we need to look at the long haul. Options? Repeated disasters with fossil fuel production, or the expense of alternatives that are truly viable and long-lasting. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
The Time is NOW
Sunday, June 6th, 2010BP; Jail, Baby, Jail
Friday, May 28th, 2010Why aren’t those three yahoos who “testified?” before Congress, and repeatedly pointed fingers at each other without accepting any culpability now in court attempting to save their own skins? It doesn’t appear that they are doing much of anything else at the moment. And I think we know enough regarding their conceit and negligence to prosecute. So, let’s do it. If we wait until the cleanup is complete, they will be dead of old age. (more…)
Ohio Mom leaves family for another man.
Monday, April 26th, 2010Who cares? Is this the only woman doing this at this moment? I don’t think so. This is just another example of “news-make.” Slow days in the news business force networks to make news. I thought the interview answer of one man was spot on, “If she wants to leave her family for another man, it’s her business and nobody else’s.” Exactly. (more…)
John Banville’s new Novel
Friday, February 26th, 2010“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of mankind rally. It is a spectacle we immortals enjoy, this minor daily resurrection, often we will gather at the ramparts of the clouds and gaze down upon them, our little ones, as they bestir themselves to welcome the new day. What a silence falls upon us then, the sad silence of our envy. Many of them sleep on, of course, careless of our cousin Aurora’s charming matutinal trick, but there are always the insomniacs, the restless ill, the lovelorn tossing on their solitary beds, or just the early-risers, the busy ones, with their knee-bends and their cold showers and their fussy little cups of black ambrosia. Yes, all those who witness it greet the dawn with joy, more or less, except of course the condemned man, for whom the first light will be the last, on earth.”
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Miscellaneous Thoughts
Monday, February 15th, 2010Top 20 Countdown of Miscellaneous Thoughts . . .
1. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
2. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
3. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
4. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
5. Was learning cursive really necessary?
6. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
7. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
8. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
9. Bad decisions make good stories.
10. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. (more…)