Comments lifeisyoga has made

  • Lies in America

    The Liar-in-Chief gets on my nerves too.  My idea of torture is being forced to watch reruns of the State-of-the-Union address. Would you be happier with a more skillful liar? Someone less embarrassing?  (Satan in 2008!)

    The constant stream of awkward lies is coverup for self-serving, publicly destructive behavior.  In the background, wealthy corporate elite manage our "democracy" to maintain & expand their privileged position.  

    To restore sanity, try reading (available on CD) "The Cheating Culture" by David Callahan (professor, Harvard Business school).  His website, www.cheatingculture.com, is worth a look.  Another good contextual resource is "The Unsettling of America" by Wendell Berry (1977).  

    good luck, brother-On Hey, At Least He Pronounced It Right posted 2 years, 5 months ago 2 Responses

  • Dirty elections & dirty electricity

    Can anyone explain why utilities have been so slow to embrace cooperative cogeneration facilities? From my experience living near Melbourne, FLA, it seems there is a standard development unit -  take a few square miles of sacred glades, drain it, build one golf course, one grade school, one WalMart, a library, so many thousand homes, a community building, etc.  If the developers are going to be that blatant about it, the least they could do is install on-site cogeneration, solar heating and cooling, etc.  

    As for large utility plants, why site something huge on a site which may well be under water in 50 years,  with increasingly violent hurricane activity, etc.?

    Oops, I forgot:  Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, etc.  Can't expect clean electricity and rational public policy in the state which is poster child for dirty elections. On Glade Runners posted 2 years, 5 months ago 1 Response

  • The NAFTA global warming superhighway

    There hasn't been enough discussion of this environmental and social catastrophe in progress.  I could go for new windpowered electric rail lines, but can't see a huge commitment to new CO2-emitting infrastructure at this point in history.  

    How can we expect to stop Middle East mayhem without jettisoning energy-intensive systems like this that make the war necessary?

    Stephen Brown Sharon, PA

    On The NAFTA super highway: Not the nationwide high-speed rail system one might have liked posted 2 years, 6 months ago 1 Response

  • DDT and malaria

    To be accurate, DDT doesn't really combat malaria, it combats the mosquitoes that transmit the malarial protozoan.  DDT was so overused that  DDT-resistance has developed in mosquito populations. People must apply more and more, plus it concentrates up the foodchain and degrades poorly.  

    DDT and associated dioxins bioaccumulate in the fatty tissue of fish, birds, whales, humans. This is bad news.  (Apparently Mr. Bailo forgets how American bald eagles and peregrine falcon populations barely returned from oblivion after DDT use was banned here.)  

    Rachel Carson was a conservative worthy of the name; perhaps more of us should read Silent Spring before making glib comments.

    Stephen Brown Sharon, PA

    On I shall speak now and then forever hold my peace posted 2 years, 6 months ago 20 Responses