Entries from July 2008

  • Greed and the end of the middle class: The new cable channel PlanetGreen keeps reminding me I’m not a person. It goes like this: an expert on one of their shows says, “If everyone in America would do this, we’d save eleventy billion tons of resources/pollution” and then they do something that only one who owns her dwelling is empowered to do. Those who can’t do it – renters, most of whom would prefer to be owners but can’t afford it – are not part of “everyone.” We ... READ MORE