Gwynne Dyer — July 12, 2023 Boing! Just like that! The Anthropocene officially started on July 11, we’re not in the Holocene anymore. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end. “I was there when the Anthropocene … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Two Long-Range Weather Reports
From: A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells? New York Times — July 14, 2023 By Michael Ponsor I joined the federal bench in 1984, some years before any of the justices currently on the Supreme Court. Throughout my career, I have been bound and guided by a written … Continue reading Quote of the Week: What to Think About When We’re Not Thinking About the Weather
AP News: Book sales, a lure for money and more takeaways from the AP investigation into Supreme Court ethics By ERIC TUCKER — July 11, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a monthslong inquiry, which included reviewing tens of thousands of pages of documents from more than 100 public records requests, The Associated Press has examined … Continue reading Supreme Book Sales & Megadonors: What Some Justices Do On Their Summer Vacations
Gwynne Dyer — July 10, 2023 When NATO held its annual summit in Brussels two years ago, all 31 presidents and prime ministers of the alliance’s member states dutifully showed up, but their hearts weren’t really in it. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, had publicly declared NATO “brain dead” in 2019, and nobody could find a … Continue reading NATO from “Brain-Dead” to Bigger & Back On A Roll?
