Did you see the incredible news this week? Coffee Pod Carbon Footprint Better for Planet than Filtered Brew Whew. What a relief. It just goes to show how woefully misdirected our attentions and perceptions are that this story trended at all. As we hurtle towards the return of El Nino…

One of the objections to doing anything about climate change always seems to be that “they” want to take away “your” or “our” “way of life,” as if the way we’re living right now is somehow necessary or good or useful. It’s not, and until we recognize the reasons why…

Everyone has been surprised by the success of Ukraine’s offensive in the north — everyone, that is, except me. Back in May, I opened a piece with this line that seems pretty prophetic right about now: It’s looking more and more like Russia isn’t just losing the elective war it…

I am not a parent, and these days, I am as glad of that fact as I am bewildered by the behavior of every parent I meet. It’s no longer accurate to say, “The writing is on the wall.” The effects of global warming are palpable on an almost daily…

With all due respect to women, who are being reminded that the government feels entitled to insert itself into their deeply personal medical decisions, abortion isn’t all or even the primary thing we need to be talking about in relation to SCOTUS’s latest awful ruling. The implication of their legal…

“I am a power-hungry coward, and I like guns!!” Just once, I want to hear someone say it. Instead, we have to hear insulting lies — bald-faced hypocrisy that is so patently and demonstrably false as not to warrant any response at all and yet, it gets broadcast as if…

It is time to get down to the matter at hand, the reason I write. Raging at the obvious hypocrisy of the day was merely a warm-up, the speedbag of a pugnacious mind. There is a particle of grit in my craw (or my shell —I’ll let you decide if…

Way back in early April, I said this: The fixed lines of the eastern front, then, seem like more of an even match than the logistically complicated reality of seizing Kiev. All Russia has to do is hammer away at the trenches and other fortifications of a less mobile opponent. …

Doing “normal” things in the face of the intolerable isn’t courage — it’s catatonia; and with every passing day, I become more and more perplexed by our lack of reaction to conditions that should legitimately provoke a response — any response at all. …