External Links
Search the Archive
By publication…
- Key West Citizen (3)
- KeyNoter (2)
- KONK Life (31)
- KWTN (7)
- Locals Guide (6)
- Solares Hill (5)
- The Blue Paper (21)
By month…
Articles with Tag…
Vampire Blues
GREEN Reactor column
[Published in The Blue Paper newspaper on August 30, 2013.]
Vampire Blues
I’m a vampire, babe,
Suckin’ blood from the earth
I’m a vampire, baby,
Suckin’ blood from the earth.
Well, I’m a vampire, babe,
Sell you twenty barrels worth.
Forty damn years later, long after we were supposed to be FLYING our cars and living in solar houses, we still SUCK. We’re sucking over 7 million barrels of crude out of the ground EVERY DAY in the US. And that doesn’t even count all of that horrendous fracked natural gas. The US is on track to exceed Saudi Arabia’s massive output before too long. Why are we here?
However, not everyone likes the idea of swallowing pills viagra purchase no prescription before engaging in sexual activities. Have you got levitra online india a great night rest? If the solution is “yes”, then you definitely are therefore lucky! Who does not want an audio sleep? Everybody does, but lots of people aren’t able to get an erection. It is massage oil for the penis, and massaging the canadian viagra pharmacy penis with this herbal oil regularly provides it with tremendous strength and stamina. The penile organ achieves enough cheap viagra greyandgrey.com blood to make the soft tissue hard. It’s primarily because Republican administrations keep undoing all the progress that had been made toward (more…)
Racism and the Environment
GREEN Reactor column
[Published in The Blue Paper newspaper on August 16, 2013.]
Racism and the Environment
Environmental Racism – the placement of toxic facilities, garbage dumps or other hazards within towns or neighborhoods that are mostly inhabited by minority populations — is a well-known and widely documented phenomenon. Though the racism involved may not have been overt – e.g., a sewage plant may have ended up in the low-income black neighborhood because the residents were least resistant to the project – the net result is the same. Such placement is all too common in America.
In some cases these areas developed in the opposite sequence. Best example is “the tracks”. Many communities of America have railroad tracks in or near the town. (more…)
Keystone Cops and Flops
GREEN Reactor column
[Published in The Blue Paper newspaper on August 2, 2013.]
Keystone Cops and Flops
When people of my age were kids, our 3 or 4 channels of TV would fill afternoon and weekend slots with old movie shorts like The Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy. Typically they’d include “silent” shorts featuring the Keystone Cops – a gang of incompetent policemen who’d pursue criminals or attempt to do public services, but to disastrous results. However it wasn’t unusual that after all the tumult, they’d still get their man.
The Keystone “bitumen” (obscure term for “sandy thick unrefined oil”) pipeline that is proposed to cross America seems to be following a similar script. (more…)