Month: April 2014

  • Let’s not have a pity party for fossil fuel companies

    If an industry’s  business model is dedicated to PERMANENTLY degrading the livable world for EVERY SINGLE baby born today, tomorrow, next year, next decade — even the  next century, then it’s a no-brainer that we ought to act sooner rather than later to stop it, especially because we ALREADY HAVE the technology to solve the…

  • Not breaking wordpress — Oops, I just did

    This is just a test to see if I have broken wordpress. Fingers crossed that I didn’t totally break it. Update: With sorrow I report that my wordpress is broken in ways I will not disclose here. All I will say is: I’m 95% sure that the problem lies with an incompatibility between my Thesis…

  • Things to Learn, Things to Teach

    I have reached a  critical juncture in my life: it’s now time to pass some teacher certifications. I have always loved teaching and had been meaning to drift back to it midcareer. In my twenties I held out  hope that there was a path to teaching at universities.  My thinking at the time was that …