The Well Run Dry

(Note: this post is something I have intended to write for the last several weeks. Today Dmitry Orlov of Cluborlov stole some of my thu...

(Before I start, I'd like to welcome Meg O'Halloran to my blog. Thanks for your readership! Also, a belated welcome to those wh...

I'll start this post with an illustration. Lasers are interesting devices. The word “laser” is actually an acronym formed from the ...

Update - 24 November 2023: Having examined the writings and worldview of many members of the Peak Oil/Collapse crowd which flourished from t...

Some of them knew pleasure, and some of them knew pain, and for some of them it was only the moment that mattered. And on the brave a...

This blog is, among other things, supposed to be a diary. This post is part diary, part commentary on recent events. A number of write...

Now that I've got your attention, let me tell you why (and why I even bring up this subject in the first place). It's not just t...

(Warning: This post is long.) Non-minority, middle- to upper-middle class families are the media's frequent focus nowadays when disc...

The present energy and economic crises in the world have caused the return of a long-forgotten culture of frugality in the United States a...