Originally Posted at The Des Moines Register At least at an intellectual level I understand the GOP fixation with “reducing the regulatory burden on businesses,” and how that leads to wanting to slash environmental regulations. But that doesn’t explain some of what’s going on here. Under the category of actual good policy, Governor Branstad...
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I guess this means we've survived another winter. At times like this it is good to muse on the wonderful turning of the seasons that make life in our part of the world so interesting. The rebirth of life in the Spring prompts us to begin to make future plans again, to...
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Loving the WordPress app for Android. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/betting-on-longshots.html is funny and serious about how we underestimate the probability and cost of low probability events
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There has been and will be a lot of ink spilled (literal and virtual) regarding the meaning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; especially what it says about our dependence on oil. But if you want to really understand it — and what it means for us — you can probably do no better than...
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My problem isn’t so much with the whole “Drill Baby, Drill” chanting crowd. My problem is that most are shocked and appalled at the Deepwater Horizon disaster. I mean, come on. It is a testament to the very good safety measures in place on the thousands of super tankers and thousands of ocean oil...
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The New York Times is running a multi-part series, called Toxic Waters regarding the increasingly poor quality of drinking water across the US. This, despite the Clean Water Act. One of the key points in the series is that despite many thousands of documented violations of state and federal clean water regulations every year,...
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