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Is the peak near? ExxonMobil says yes...
Holy crap, is Kunstler cranky today or what? Great stuff!
| ...I got down to Los Angeles on Friday and have been in a state of pathological reflex nausea ever since. Despite their lame attempts to rebuild a few pieces of the 2000-mile-long streetcar system that they gleefully destroyed in the 1950s, life here is all about cars and it will never not be about cars -- until the reality of our oil predicament falls on the hapless public like a hammer of God and the people of California die for their fucking cars in their fucking cars and over their fucking cars... ...I was invited to give a talk at Google headquarters down in Mountain View last Tuesday. They sent somebody to fetch me (in a hybrid car, zowee!) from my hotel in San Francisco -- as if I had any choice about catching a train down, right? Google HQ was a glass office park pod tucked into an inscrutable tangle of off-ramps, berms, manzanita clumps, and curb-cuts. But inside, it was all tricked out like a kindergarten. They had pool tables, and inflatable yoga balls, and $6000 electronic vibrating massage lounge chairs, and snack stations deployed at twenty-five step intervals, with lucite bins filled with chocolate raisins and granola. The employees dressed like children. There were two motifs: "skateboard rat" and "10th grade nerd." I suppose quite a few of them were millionaires. Many of the work cubicles were literally modular children's playhouses. I gave my spiel about the global oil problem and the unlikelihood that "alternative energy" would even fractionally replace it, and quite a few of the Googlers became incensed. "Yo, Dude, you're so, like, wrong! We've got, like, technology!" |
2005 June 13, Monday
There's a lot on my plate at the moment, but I'm still breathing. I'll have some updates soon. Sorry aboot the absence!
Here's a new Ward Sutton cartoon: Woodward and Bernstein - the next generation
Juan Cole on the Koran/Pee-Pee scandal...
A dailykos article on (you guessed it) - Peak Oil!
2005 June 1, Wednesday
Me find some funnies:
A recent Simpsons contained the following exchange:
| Marge: Bart, I love you. But sometimes I don't love your choices. (Sigh) Now we have to find another school for you. Homer: Yeah, and if you get kicked out of that one, you're going straight in the army. Where you'll be sent straight to America's latest military quagmire. Where will it be? North Korea? Iran? Anything's possible with with Commander Koo-Koo-Bananas in charge! |
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