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Fish Rock Road: 2014/07
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. I just had a bit of jolting experience. I wanted to make some notes (on actual paper, for once), and I grabbed a notebook. The notebook had all kinds of random scribblings: notes about books; ideas for blog posts; to-do lists started, amended, re-written, and abandoned; German vocabulary for understanding something by Walter Benjamin; notes from a USPTO Software Patent Roundtable. I mean this thing is random. Well, it didn’t say all that. The tiny part ...This is...
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Fish Rock Road: Dinosaur Mating and the Endgame of the Fossil Fuel Era
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Dinosaur Mating and the Endgame of the Fossil Fuel Era. The Fossil Fuel Endgame. It is my contention that we are currently witnessing the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel industry. After years of high prices for crude oil ( $100/barrel for Brent, just under that for West Texas Intermediate), prices starting falling in late summer 2014. I believe this decision marks a turning point in the history of oil. It's not short-term but permanent. To push prices low...
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Fish Rock Road: 2015/04
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Earlier this week I had an emotional meltdown over Freddie Gray's murder and the subsequent events in Baltimore. I wrote several tweets that were openly calling for the death of cops. I'm writing this blog post not to retract those comments, but to explain them. Punishment for the cops whatsoever. The Coup has a line: "Every cop is a corrupt one." Absolutely true. Thinking about how the Baltimore police mutilated Freddie Gray's body ignited a murderous rage in me...
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Fish Rock Road: 2015/08
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. No, We Don't Stand Together. The slogan "We Stand Together" is as bad as "All Lives Matter", and Bernie supporters would do well to steer clear of it. Everyone should realize by now how hollow the phrase "All Lives Matter" is. If black people had used the slogan "All Lives Matter" originally, that would actually mean what it says. But the phrase "All Lives Matter" was only uttered after. Matter, in the face of a society that so clearly does not. Stand in a very d...
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Fish Rock Road: 2014/04
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Letter to the Editor Concerning WSPA's Self-serving Op-Ed. The president of WSPA (the Western States Petroleum Association - a fossil fuel lobbying group), somehow got this nonsense. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle the other day. The next day there was a great letter to the editor. Which I reproduced here:. When elves can deliver oil. Adam Knowles, San Francisco. I had to write in myself. I don't know if it will get published, but here it is:. It's hard ...
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Fish Rock Road: Comments on the scope of the WesPac EIR, part 2
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Comments on the scope of the WesPac EIR, part 2. August 7th, 2015 - my second email submitting comments, focusing on climate change. Part one. Focuses on more local and regional issues. This is the second part of my comments on the scope of the WesPac RDEIR, focusing on climate change, both the project's effect on climate change and the effects of climate action on the project's purpose and long-term viability. There is simply no excuse to do otherwise; any state...
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Fish Rock Road: 2014/05
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. I am incredibly heartened to see the huge explosion of the #YesAllWomen. Hashtag/meme. And flabbergasted. I see women I know coming out about being raped or sexually assaulted. I see stories and stories and stories spill over. I see men getting it. I see the mainstream media shift its interpretation of the Isla Vista shootings from just being about guns and "mental illness". It reminds me of this great passage about the movie Django from a blog post. By: San Fran...
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Fish Rock Road: Police Violence is a Tactic
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Police Violence is a Tactic. A queer group entertained us at the West Coast Port Shutdown in Oakland this morning. They had a life-sized cutout of the infamous Lt. Pike. They handed out these leaflets:. When experiencing the unpleasant sensations of outrage about police brutality, do please remember:. Police violence is never an isolated incident of officers misbehaving. Violent behavior by police officers is a regular, natural extension of state power. West Coas...
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Fish Rock Road: 2014/11
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The blog of a free-floating intellectual. Public Comment to the EPA on the Clean Power Plan. The folks over at 350 Silicon Valley have made a web page that explains really easily how to send a letter to the EPA. Regarding the Clean Power Plan (the plan to limit climate-related pollution from coal plants). Their aim is to send 1000 letters by the deadline of December 1st - and they already have almost 800! November 12, 2014. To Whom It May Concern:. Fossil fuels, from coal to natural gas. Attempting to in...
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