“I don’t need a kickstand.”
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Archive of entries posted on March 2004
Obesity, Health Care Costs, and Life on the Commons
Andrew Sullivan suggests, in response to yesterday’s CDC report on obesity, that if one wants to be fat, that’s a personal choice: What’s to be done on a collective basis? I have an idea: nothing. If people want to eat themselves into misery and early death, it really isn’t anyone else’s business. Well, perhaps. Or …
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Writing v. Typing
In commenting on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Truman Capote is said to have offered, “That’s not writing. That’s typing.” Perhaps that’s my problem, Christian. I just type real fast. Keep scrolling. Nothing else to see here.
John Malkovich and the Garden Gnomes
So it’s been suggested that I don’t write enough about gnomes or something, but that’s weird, because sometimes they’re all I think about, and it’s all I can do to not write about them. I’m sort of embarassed to admit it, but sometimes I’ll lie in bed at night, in the dark, and imagine my …
Think Globally, Trade Emissions Locally
A British research group is suggesting a sort of localized version of Kyoto-style emissions trading, according to the BBC: Every man and woman in the country could be issued with a fixed number of permits to pollute the atmosphere under an idea from government-sponsored researchers. It’s been proposed by academics at the Tyndall Centre – …
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Laughing Lizard
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Playing Tourist
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A Shiny New Hockey Stick
There’s a new set of long-term climate change data out, this one for Europe over the last 500 years, and once again it’s shaped like a hockey stick:
Nyet on Kyoto?
A new UN report may signal the death knell for the Kyoto treaty by giving Russian treaty opponents the ammunition they’ve been looking for, according to a piece today by Paul Webster in Science (subscription required). The problem, according to Webster, is that previous UN calculations that seemed to show the Russians would have carbon …
The Market Notices
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