Theatre: After The War
Phillip Kan Gotanda is a San Francisco playwright so it was particularly interesting to see his “After the War,” about …
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Solar Flares
You may think this news doesn’t affect you: Global Positioning System devices around the world were briefly but significantly disrupted …
Global Catastrophe Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its second report. http://www.ipcc.ch/ 24 page summary for policy makers (pdf) “Climate …
Actually From Albuquerque
A friend, Ellen Watson sends this on. “The poet Naomi Shihab Nye wrote up this Albuquerque Airport experience and sent …
Water Water Waterless
There is a very striking photo heading this article in the NY Times — a pier, once used for fishing …
Climate Change: Hurricane Season
Last year the hurricane season was relatively mild, especially in contrast to the prior year of Katrina infamy. “There, see!’ …
War Tax Resistance
“Dorothy Hansen used to pay her taxes faithfully every year — until the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Since …
Mercenary Armies
For a truly distressing day you could do no worse than read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s …