Wal-Mart’s new green-washed image is deflecting attention from the drag the company continues to inflict on workers’ wages and communities’ quality of life.
Is Sarah Palin Right about Taxing Polluters? A Thought Experiment
I think it’s time to cut Sarah Palin a little slack. After all, not many of us would forsake the bright lights for more winters in Wasilla. Besides, with her […]
Good Bye Night Sky
There was a time, a few days ago in human history, really, when people spent a lot of time looking at the sky at night. To read Greek mythology, and […]
Dirty Harry Saves the Bay View
Three decades ago, the Dirty Harry movies gave shape and license to the revenge fantasies that fed the law-and-order politics of the era. Is it possible that dramatic acts of […]
Hidden Vista: New Microsoft Operating System Means Toxic Trash for Third World
There’s an old dump in a municipality on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It hasn’t been used for years, and it’s been picked pretty clean. But when I […]
Space Waste: As Below, So Above
We humans tend to think that things would be better if only we could be some place else. The alcoholic would stop drinking if only he could move to California, […]
DDT: Echoes of Iraq
We were on the farm in April, my wife’s parents’ rice farm in the Philippines, and our son got sick. At first we thought it was the heat. But as […]
This Land is Their Land
There is a grim symmetry to the gasoline act that recently passed the House of Representatives, in particular the provision to make old military bases available for oil refineries. Take […]
Sissifying the West
Theodore Roosevelt must be a tempting icon for the White House message crew to invoke. A virile Republican, a man’s man who carried the banner of imperialism with pride and […]
What Greenspan Can’t See
The President’s response to his administration’s ineptitude regarding Katrina has been to distance himself from it. He’s calling for an “investigation,” as though someone other than himself was in charge. […]