Irene and its aftermath, and a few other storms.

| Aug 31, 2011

This is the end of a certain way of doing things – the industrial growth-spurt fiesta. We’re in permanent contraction now.

| Aug 22, 2011

After Iowa: Haven’t the media noticed that there’s something peculiar about a cycle of perpetual election with no governing in between?

| Aug 15, 2011

Nature is telling you to get local, get smaller, get finer, downscale, solidify your friendships, and drop your stupid grandiose fantasies about running WalMart on algae.

| Aug 11, 2011

Let’s give thanks that the debt-ceiling crisis is over because now the USA can get on with its systemic collapse honestly and fairly.

| Aug 1, 2011

Whatever other conclusions can be drawn from the great debt ceiling debate of 2011, the main one seems to be that this country can no longer govern itself.

| Jul 25, 2011

Some kind of convulsion is in the cards. We have crossed an invisible line into a place where untoward things happen.

| Jul 18, 2011

We are turning a page in the grand fiction of what money is and whether we are capable of governing ourselves.

| Jul 12, 2011

Surely many in this nation see an approach to an abyss.

| Jul 4, 2011

If I were President Obama, I’d just call it quits and sign on with the home team: Goldman Sachs.

| Jun 27, 2011

The man who set himself on fire in Keene, New Hampshire recommended something that sounded a lot like violent revolution.

| Jun 20, 2011

The world is in a box, tortured with its obsolete ideas about how economies are supposed to run.

| Jun 13, 2011