Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Gore at Netroots Nation? UPDATE: Gore at Netroots Nation!
The hot rumor at the moment is that Al Gore is going to appear at Netroots Nation immediately following Nancy Pelosi’s Q&A session (which is going on right now). We’ll keep you posted. UPDATE: There he is! Let’s blog along, shall we? He loves the netroots — informed citizenry, etc. etc. North pole melting — […]
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Extreme exceptionalism
“America is the most selfish country. From the way they talk, Americans believe even if the world disappears, America wouldn’t disappear.” — Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, on the U.S. not joining the Kyoto Protocol
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Clark and Dean pump up a crowd that’s a little less giddy
I’m at Netroots Nation, watching speeches from Wesley Clark and Howard Dean. I must say — not to be a downer — that I don’t feel the same sense of giddy excitement in the room this year. There’s less of a sense of "wow, we matter!" and more of a sense of, "hm, what now?" […]
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Ugly babies
“Ethanol is an ugly baby, but it’s our baby. I’m not against any fuel unless it’s foreign.” — oil billionaire and energy independence evangelist T. Boone Pickens
