Disaster at the Top of the World

By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON
Published: August 22, 2010
Jonathan Twingley

STANDING on the deck of this floating laboratory for Arctic science, which is part of Canada’s Coast Guard fleet and one of the world’s most powerful icebreakers, I can see vivid evidence of climate change. Channels through the Canadian Arctic archipelago that were choked with ice at this time of year two decades ago are now expanses of open water or vast patchworks of tiny islands of melting ice. More

Teh Stupid -- It burns...

Now That’s Rich
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 22, 2010

We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.

But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country. More

Always and Forever

Mizz Laura Jean, davidschroth and I went to see Always and Forever at the Illusion Theater last night. It rocked.