You’ve probably heard the best story I’ve ever read about Dyson, about how he and Richard Feynman drove out to California from the East Coast almost non-stopover, and during their long conversations Dyson articulated the mathematics to which Feynman added his own genius and consequently did the work that won him the Nobel Prize.

I have (lost now) on my shelves a fascinating blend of early atomic reactor engineering, biography, and deception – namely, Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall, by Jeremy Bernstein and David Cassidy. If you’re not already familiar with the book, you might give it a read.

What I mean is “paradigm” is the most overworked word in modern usage.

“Paradigm shift” is worse, and invariably conveys no information.

Things have been so good in the present paradigm?

Every now and then something comes along to force people to change. History forgets those who didn’t want to. Things now are changing and no one wants to do anything – especially the guys in power – because the real solution means that we’re all going to take a big step back in our standard of living – the things revolutions are made of. But more importantly, the big guys are making too much money now to think about making changes.

How many people could do without Coke, Levi’s, or American Idol? Do any of you – especially Americans – know what fruits and vegatables are in season and when? If you really want to save the world – stop participating in a global, mass-produced economy – it uses too much energy.

I also liked this article by Blair athough environmentalism is not my highest priority. So I forwarded it to a good friend who is more concerned about environmentalism than I.

Counterfeit exists because there is real gold.

Naomi Klien is real gold.

Don’t ask the barber if you need a haircut.
Don’t ask a lawyer if you need his wisdom and legal advice.
Don’t trust anybody who advocates a new paradigm or a paradigm shift.

FutureGen is glarlingly out-of-place in the piece.
It is not in dispute that Blair mentioned FutureGen.
I do not know precisely why Blair would even mention FutureGen.
I am punching keys now about FutureGen.

Russ Wellen is a writer.
He is back also with songs and praise for our heroic fighting troops.

I am impressed by John Blair’s determination to change the world, though for many reasons, alluded to by gerald spezio, I think he’s got a snowball’s chance in hell of implementing his “moral equivalent of war” Jimmy Carter solution.

But, as I am not a Master of the Universe myself, I can only say it is better to light one candle than bewail the darkness.

“Dear post-only,

On October 13, 1957,
I was a Master of the
Universe, at a not-so-tender
Fifteen years of age.

And On June 13, 2007, I
was talking to my therapist
And recalling how it felt to
Be a Master almost fifty
Years before.

And how, in particular,
I’d felt thinking about
The others who were
Not so fortunate as to
Be Masters.

And on June 13, 2007, I
Recalled that in fact
I had not thought
About those others much
At all, almost fifty years before.

And he told me that that sounded right.

Dear post-onlys,

You don’t deceive yourself and believe
Anyone who’s paid to write
Really pays attention
To the words
We post

In any personal way,

Do you?

Or that our little ires and venoms and joys and mood
Instabilities are well-directed to anyone
Other than to ourselves?”

They have a techno- fix for the dying planet.
http://www.futuregenalliance.org/alliance/members.stm

Some smart investors think that Peabody Coal and Rio Tonto are especially good plays in the booming market for clean energy from coal.

I find it doubtful they can do either but until they do, we need to stop the building of coal plants across the world. I happen to live in the center of the largest concentration and I have spent the last several years in a dogged fight to eliminate coal period.

If you know of some way to stop the FutureGen plant from being built, either in Illinois or Texas, I suggest that you move to the head of the line and tell us how that can be accomplished.

Calling for an end to the murder in the Middle East seems …

“Accusing Ahmadinejad of “calling for an end to Israel” washed big.
Even though that Muslim mean prick Ahmadinejad never said it.
At least somebody got the mean prick part out there.

Calling for capitalism to end before the end times. That would be nice.

I would call for that calling, as a damn good call?

Call for help? Who could be against it?

Let’s call for new ethics, a new paradigm, or even a paradigm shift, including a “meaningful relationship” for all bewildered souls on the planet. As in David Korten and earth community.

Remember that urban myth about lovers lane, Spanish fly, and the car’s shift lever causing a really major paradigm shift for the uninitiated. into the ways of the world.
It’s that kind of a paradigm shift, I think.

Pitched as; “Sell your head and get some great Cabernet and Bree.

Get big coal.

Big coal is good for you.

It is only a start.
This insidious peeyar whoring can only get worse.