The Well Run Dry

“Decompensation” is what happens when a narcissistic individual or entity is no longer able to maintain the grandiose self which is its ...

There's a Russian church near my house, to which I have paid occasional visits over the last year or so. On one of my visits, a rece...

There is a recent article on Canadian unemployment in the Canadian paper Globe and Mail, titled, “Why The Real Picture May Be Worse.” (U...

The issues now being faced by the members of our modern society are so serious that a proper discussion of these issues must include a healt...

This blog began with oil – its role in the global economy and social order, and the implications of an impending peak and subsequent decli...

The ongoing collapse of our global, “official” economy means that increasing numbers of us are going to be cut off from our present liveli...

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...

It is my honor to host this week's Festival of Frugality . As I stated in my last post, the “Festival of Frugality” is a “blog carniva...

Few people are rich enough or powerful enough nowadays to avoid facing the worrisome future that looms over us, a future brought on us by o...

In my last post I described how I became a bicycle commuter, and the cost of the learning curve I experienced as I searched for what I con...