Articles by David Roberts

Wacky cult thought highly of the fear & environmentalism series

One of the troubles in discussing the issues of fear and violence is that any attempt to condemn them, or suggest alternatives, is inevitably cast as fuzzy-headed and idealistic. It doesn't help that such attempts tend to attract the genuinely fuzzy-headed and idealistic.

I hoped my F&E posts had done something to circumvent that.

Then yesterday, I got a letter in the mail that began thusly:

Fascinating

Noted investigative journalist and author Edwin Black has a new book out: Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives. It's about the transition from electric cars (and public transit), which were widespread in the late 19th century, to internal-combustion cars. Suffice to say, the "free market" played very little role.

There's a great interview with Black over on Reform Judaism Magazine. Here's a taste:

Six easy steps!

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I meant to link to this U.S. PIRG report: "Rising to the Challenge: Six Steps to Cut Global Warming Pollution in the United States." So I'm doing it now.

The six steps are:

Would you shoot your spouse for them?

Don't mess with a woman's chicken:

A woman was charged Tuesday for shooting her husband in the back after he shot her pet chicken, the Lane County Sheriff's Office said.

Mary Kay Gray, 58, was arraigned Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court on a charge of felony assault. She was being held in the Lane County Jail.

Her husband, Stanley Edward Gray, 43, was recovering from a single gunshot wound to the shoulder. The chicken died at the scene.

(hat tip: reader PW)