Typepad Out – Again
Hmm, because of the typepad outage about half of my feeds are unreachable. Why isn’t there a network status page that most decent hosts will offer? (Or am I just not finding it?)
Sustainability’s Security Imperative
Alex Steffen of WorldChanging tries to get at what should be the “green world’s” vector of approach for the average consumer – the individual security imperative – but gets mired up in discussing the negative effects of not sustaining by repeating the same long term broad minded speeches the ecocrowd is known for:
The health effects of sprawl, car accidents, chemical spills, environmentally-influenced cancers: all of these things are probably bigger threats to the lives of average Americans than terrorism. Certainly preventable disease, unneccessary hunger, solvable poverty and environmental degredation already cause far more death and suffering in the world than any terrorists ever could.
He should have dropped the moral imperative, built off of Robb’s vision (which he’s making a reality for him and his – which doesn’t portend well for the rest of us) of systemic failures amid collapsing states.
Bottom line – instead of dismissing the wave of paranoia and pushing for a change in threat targeting (terrorism isn’t real, global warming is), the go-green movement should be riding it and capitalizing on it. (Terrorism is the threat, resiliency through sustainability is the answer.)
Cost of Iraq
Kingdaddy touches on the network effects of the Iraq war. Depending on how many links you progress on the chain the cost gets much higher, including the loss of wealth generation as reservists are called out of civilian jobs, the cost of WIA healthcare, the accelerated promotion schedules, the black budget etc etc.
Big Changes
In light of recent outages I’m moving hosts (and upping to more space and bandwidth). In addition I’m redesigning the site to something more suited to the core reasonings for creating the site in the first place. This site will remain functional and the transition should be seamless and overnight later this month.
NYT Ditches Lieberman
To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton – the NYT has “dropped good for perfect” in picking Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman. Probably won’t make a big impact, but it gives rise to an important question – how many Democrats are willing to do the same? How will that shape up?