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ASPO-USA Conference, Houston, Oct. 17 - 20. I'll be there. Click here for details.

Letter from an employee in the British oil industry

Civitas: Kunstler's Saratoga (local) Newsletter on Politics and Urban Design Issues -- New Aug 15

Jim's Summer Bike Ride Routine 07

Speech at the Commonwealth Club of California
(MP3)

Eyesore of the Month -- October 2007

New   Painting Gallery Four   New

Forecast for 2007

From Orion Magazine: Making Other Arrangements  New

For a shrewd glance at the sticky state of public education, visit Peter Golden's Boardside.

Announcing my next book:
World Made By Hand
A novel of the Long Emergency set in upstate New York in the not distant future. To be published by The Atlantic Monthly Press March 2008 .

The Daily Grunt (if I have anything to say)

October 1, 2007

Speaking of Chaos in the Airports. . .

Family Mourns Woman Who Died at Airport

NEW YORK (AP) - A traveler who may have accidentally choked herself to death while handcuffed in an airport holding cell was a "wonderful" woman and mother, according to New York City's public advocate, who is her relative.
    Carol Anne Gotbaum, 45, was arrested Friday at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix after she became irate when gate crews refused to let her board a flight for which she was late, officials said. . . .
(Rest of story.)


Grunt Archive

Could you step back from sending me e-mails, downloads, and links, please. My load of correspondence is heavy. I appreciate your consideration and will reply to all urgent and compelling messages.

  
 

Published Monday Mornings
The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle
Commentary on the Flux of Events

October 1, 2007
Two Clues for the Clueless
     The first clue came during a routine NPR news broadcast on Friday, which had presidential candidate Mitt Romney retailing the shopworn idea that our nation "is dependent on foreign oil." We've heard this a million times, of course, and we accept it without thinking. But if you venture forward mentally one baby step, you will quickly come to see that, no, this dependence on foreign oil is not itself the problem. The problem is that we have adopted a living arrangement so hopelessly centered around cars and incessant motoring and one of the consequences is an addiction to oil, which we happen to have a declining supply of in our own land. . . .

Continued. . . .

 
  



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