Pulling the plug on Afghanipakistan

"\"TweetShareShareFor those who had forgotten,\\u00a0The New Yorker‘s\\u00a0most recent issue has\\u00a0reminded us once again that it is America’s\\u00a0best magazine. You’ve got Anthony Lane visiting Pixar, Malcolm Gladwell...

Five bucks well spent

"\"TweetShareShareThe CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to “blow up the book.” As someone who recently wrote a...

On the Gulf Oil Spill anniversary

"\"TweetShareShareTo confirm a single statistic I wanted to share about a year after BP’s Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 men and countless creatures and spewed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 86 days, I stopped...

To tax or not to tax

"TweetShareSharePresident Obama’s remarks on fiscal policy today put forth a few numbers worth committing to memory before the forthcoming, protracted budget debates: “So here\u2019s the truth.\u00a0 Around two-thirds of our budget ...

What’s a watt? Get on a bike.

"\"TweetShareShareI checked the output of our rooftop solar panels just now, at 11:28 a.m. On a sunny, brisk Denver day (briskness doesn’t affect solar output), our 13 east-facing 220-watt panels were cranking out 2,476 watts, according to...

A bit about the independence movement

"TweetShareShareJ.B. Opdyke, a teammate on the Michigan soccer team 20+ years ago, recently sent me a book he edited, called Talk\/Talk. It is, as I mentioned in a review, “a compilation of talking heads talking about the talk of talking hea...