Why Ray LaHood Is Wrong | Newsweek Voices - George F. Will | Newsweek.com

Its government has been, intermittently, as progressive as all get-out, trying to use zoning, light-rail projects and high-density housing to cool the planet by curbing automobile use. This sort of “New Urbanism” is metastasizing. Last year California’s attorney general, Jerry Brown, 71, the state’s once (1975–82) and, he hopes, future governor, was a prime mover behind a new law that would deny certain state aid to communities that do not adopt “smart growth” plans. They are supposed to herd Californians into higher-density living near mass-transit rail lines in order to reduce their carbon footprints (tire prints, actually).

god fuck you George Will you stupid bastard.  Putting quotes around something doesn’t automatically make it “wrong” otherwise people would write your name “George Will”

The Oil Drum: Campfire | The Big Picture - What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

7) Government, politicians, billionaire etc. are not responsible for our problems. There was not some devious plot forged on Jekyll Island for world domination. Where we stand today was arrived at by a path dependent series of small steps of people pursuing power in culturally condoned ways. It’s a giant chinese finger trap with huge momentum- but the players are mostly benign, with few true conspiracies.

8) Nature abhors a gradient. Humans encountered a giant lottery ticket in fossil fuels. As the gradient began to dissipate in 1970s consuming nations replaced it with debt, imported energy, and borrowing from nature, future, and thin air.

NYT: When Did Cowboys Get Wimpy?

This shows us two things:

1) Montana has given itself many nicknames.

2) Montanans are more easily frightened than Manhattanites.

This image is supposed to be drawn from the point of view that one should be sympathetic to the rich but I see it the other way.  Eat the rich.