Coal Miners Daughter

Big Yosemite, Big Cash

I am a communist. I do not see America like Americans. Antediluvian, obsolescent dystopian desert sea to seas in seas. It stinks. It’s a parking lot. Its buildings unassailable prisons. Her roads are rot. Angel Falls is closed. Ranger, Walt Disney, ordered the closure. Guns. Guns. Guns. Even in a…

Fake Food, Tim Barrus, NYT

Not Another Pain In the Ass Piece On the Environment. But, Yes. Industrialized food. Industrialized farming. Industrialized fish farming. Industrialized wages. Industrialized health care. Industrialized housing. Industrialized prisons. Industrialized education. Industrialized book markets. Industrialized guns. Industrialized mining. Industrialized logging. Industrialized publishing. Industrialized beer. Industrialized shoes. Industrialized art. Industrialized war. Industrialized…

What Extinction: Tim Barrus NYT

Our extinction. Writers are always telling me that we must all be hopeful. Are you fucking kidding me. The environment was destroyed a long time ago. There is nothing left to save. I have given up. On humanity. We are, in fact,  Australopithecines. Homo sapiens are so smart, so brilliant,…

These End of Days

Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times wants you to be hopeful. Even when I do not agree with Farhad, I always admire his ability to write and make his thought-provoking points. The New York Times is refusing to publish anything from this piece in comments because I have broken…

Tim Barrus: Jonah’s Mountain

I am amused and sustained by the idea that the end of homo sapiens’ domination of the planet will be sooner than anyone suspected. The end is irreversible now. It is too late. Many scientists know. They give voice to this reality in private. What good would blowing whistles do.…