Saving Emergency Services.
As local governments struggle to maintain service levels, one of the problems we face in the era of resource scarcity is that we currently put out fires...with oil.
Be careful what you are thankful for, as it may not be yours at all!
As we all wring our hands about what to do for "our" distressed country while we gather to gorge ourselves on factory farmed food, we need to remember, the land this "nation" was built on, was not "ours" in the first place. This occupation mentality may be part of what led to the ugly suburban landscape we "built" upon the stolen land. (pictured: Miss Navajo Nation)
Grand Junction, Junction... What's your function?
Booming while everyone else busts and busting while everyone else booms. City leaders think they have finally broken the cycle, but the oil shale reality is an often delayed boom just waiting for oil prices to support it.
Experian(ced) liars*
Credit Reporting Agencies are expected to convey accurate information about us; but yet cannot even convey accurate information about themselves, what is a nation that depends on credit to believe? (*Title applies while website names try to "take advantage")
Unreality Television
A glimpse into the high entropy lifestyle of the McMansion set.
At Goldman Sachs self-bonus-ing is "God's Work"
The CEO of Goldman Sachs has explained why the bonuses are so big, a policy that has changed since the days of Job and Mother Teresa, and a dramatic turnaround in pay structure for martyrs from Heaven Inc.
Suburban "Downtown"
The "Olde Fashioned" "Towne Centers" are being built, and it looks like Wall Street has some messed up plans for Main Street. (Pictured Church Street Burlington, VT)