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All the press coverage over Rick Santorum’s idiotic suggestions that mainline Protestants aren’t Christians, or that President Obama isn’t a Christian, or that prenatal care increases abortion rates, or that people who favor prenatal care favor eugenics, have obscured his equally idiotic attacks on environmentalism: Santorum said that he was referring not to the president’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Energy and Environment’ Category
February 20th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Religion and Politics, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives
January 22nd, 2012
The political implications of maps of US renewable energy resources.
January 11th, 2012
Category: Academic Labor Market, Energy and Environment, Law Notes, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
Teresa R. Wagner, a conservative Republican who applied for a faculty job at Iowa and was turned down, thinks so: Ms. Wagner, who graduated from the law school in 1993 and had taught at the George Mason University School of Law, was not hired. She sued, alleging discrimination because of her political beliefs. Late last [...]
January 10th, 2012
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “The Joshua Tree”? I’m just back from a week at Joshua Tree National Park. I was enormously fortunate to attend a fabulous Jewish Wilderness Spirituality program of Torah Trek, the brainchild of Rabbi Mike Comins. Comins’ book, A Wild Faith, is the fundamental starting point for examining the [...]
December 5th, 2011
Hotels are willing to pay me if I accept less frequent maid service. I approve.
November 21st, 2011
A rejoinder to Megan McArdle´s rejection of the prospects for solar PV.
November 20th, 2011
Category: Biofuels, Energy and Environment
Mike O’Hare nails it. The target paper “presents a principal inference not supported by its results, that rests on a fundamental conceptual error, and that has no place in the current discussion of biofuels’ climate effects.”
November 15th, 2011
A rant against Tyler Cowen and for economic fundamentalism on the future of solar PV.
October 5th, 2011
For the third time this year, Republicans in Congress seem to be angling for a government shutdown. Not only will there be disagreements on funding levels, but the House will insist on attaching riders to appropriations bills preventing agencies from doing various things. I realize that this may come as a shock, but the House [...]
September 21st, 2011
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment
A shoddy chart by the EIA spreads unwarranted gloom.