When I did a post on the mindset surrounding Amendment E, I pointed to a number of people who are supporters of what has become known as the 9/11 Truth Movement. From that flowed a variety of comments and e-mails, ranging from the attacking to those who said I was being willfully ignorant. They might […]
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“It’s really a very interesting time.” So a geophysicist from the University of Alaska tells Elizabeth Kolbert as she visits his study of the permafrost in Alaska. That “interesting time” is the global warming taking place on the planet. Kolbert expanded a three-part series she wrote for New Yorker magazine into Field Notes from a […] Why do they hate us? That’s a question many Americans have asked, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. There is no simple answer. And while John Tirman’s 100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World may not be specifically intended to address that question, it certainly is a step toward some comprehension of America’s current stature […] There are some people you hear about and all you can think is, “Are you nuts?” Take Rory Stewart for example. Stewart spent 16 months walking 6,000 miles across Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. He decided that to make his journey complete, he must go back and walk 600 miles across Afghanistan. But he’s going […] It began in the late 1960s in a bohemian, artistic enclave in the canyons near Los Angeles. It spawned the singer-songwriter era of rock music and produced what would be called “the Southern California sound” and “country rock.” It essentially ended in the 1970s as commercial success and millionaire lifestyles led to the disintegration of […] |
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