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Monthly Archive November, 2009

Triple Anger

I seem to be gathering reasons to be really angry over these past few days. Or, better yet, people seem to keep providing me with them. There are three major ones just now, caused by three different people. The first two are friends, or at least people I like to think of as friends, and […]

Was Worth a Shot: Remus Cernea or No Longer Just the Lesser Evil

Note (May, 2012): I fear I must distance myself from the affirmation made in this post’s title. It is possible that it would have been true if him and the Green Party would have somehow bridged their differences, but since they failed to do so and went their separate ways, they have both added to […]

Proposed Dutch Road Tax: Terrific Concept, Terrifying Implementation

When I first saw the proposal for the new Dutch road tax, I thought something was finally moving in the right direction. The basic concept is correct: You don’t pollute or damage roads simply by owning a car; you do that by driving it. Plus that purchase taxes discourage people from replacing their old cars […]

Finished Recovering Old Posts

I have finally finished moving those really old posts, written over nine years ago, here. Took a very long time because I had to make room for them, since they’re all personal posts and one of my rules for this blog is that the personal posts must make up less than half of the total. […]

Getting the Issue of Overpopulation in the Media

Yesterday I received a notification from John Feeney, the founder of Global Population Speak Out, announcing that the Population Institute will administer Global Population Speak Out 2010, so I want to post a little rant about getting the media to cover the problem of overpopulation, and to do so properly. It’s true that I say […]