It's no longer enough to make the data-supported claim that our reliance upon oil has increased the inevitable rise in the planet's temperature causing unprecedented climate change. To make some impact it has to be the impending doom of all life on the planet.

Here's the thing: the bill will always come due.

Let’s give that guy a weapon designed to kill another human being. Great fucking idea.

Eventually, I rub everyone the wrong way.

The discourse of the sensitivity readers ultimately leads to an erasure of that history so that two generations from now, no one will even know how horrible writers, politicians, and scientists could be.

If I don't believe in the thing you believe in, I'm not against it.

The state of the climate with its ridiculous weather patterns and disastrous effects on everyone is a scud missile headed right now to destroy us all—not the planet but our continued ability to live upon it—but before I get into all that the tire light on my Prius is on and it's driving me nuts.