Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Excuse me while I puke this out. Phew, writing in anyway sensibly about what goes for American politics is impossible. Writing nonsensically, well that is American politics. Case and point is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. If you remember, it was only a couple of weeks ago,
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In a wonderful speech from 1961 at the University of Colorado, J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and atomic bomb creator, talked about human perception. He noted, “In every extension of knowledge we're involved in action and in every action we're involved in choice and in every choice
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the day the Dream went right back to base there’s blood on the ground blood on the sand blood all around Minnie and Mickey Brer and Pluto secretly prayed there was no doubt at all no maybe about it was the day Disney's Dream debased You grow
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I recently received an email from a friend that included this money chart created by a financial firm called TrendCompass: Using Fed numbers, this is just a great graphic charting the last decades financialization of the economy. The top black line is “credit,” aka debt, while the bottom line is
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Kevin Phillips died last week. Phillips gained fame or infamy depending on one's perspective for his 1969 book, The Emerging Republican Majority. In the years following, Phillips was blamed for the Republicans' strategy of playing on White fear and ignorance over the enfranchisement of Black America. However,
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Subscribe now The Exxon takeover of Pioneer had me take a little closer look at oil numbers, something I haven't done for a number of years. From its peak in 1970, traditional US oil production declined for the next four decades from 9.6 million barrels a day
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Continued from I The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. — August, 1968,
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Subscribe now Well, Exxon purchased Pioneer not for $50, but $60 billion. Phew! The price of oil goes up ever quicker these days. The WSJ has a ridiculous propagandist editorial that starts with, “The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge
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“I'm gonna put on a iron shirt and chase the devil out of earth I'm gonna send him to outa space to find another race” There's a much overlooked, amazingly schizophrenic bit of presidential rhetoric that represents the tragic direction of American politics over
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Two in one day, you lucky or poor bastards. What value for $75 a year! Subscribe now The headlines blare Exxon to buy shale pioneer, Pioneer. Now, being quite clever here, if the deal goes through that would officially mark the peak of shale, certainly it’d be the counter-revolution
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Subscribe now They found some footprints in the New Mexican desert that place the peopling of Americas at 21,000 - 23,000 years ago, which is a good five or six thousand years before previously accepted dates. The Laetoli Footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in Tanzania are 3.6
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Subscribe now Say a word for Jimmy Brown he ain't got nuthin’ at all Not the shirt right off his back he ain't got nuthin’ at all And say a word for Ginger Brown walks with his head down to the ground Took the shoes right