Yesterday I offered “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” with the editor’s note.  (And last week: 16-year-old Greta Thurnberg’s call to action.)

Trump and many of his followers believe it’s all a Chinese hoax.*

And yet:

Prologue

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The […]

It matters who’s in charge.  From the New York Times last year:

Editor’s Note
This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the […]

I continue to support the Clinton Foundation.

(Also: the Carter Center, the Obama Foundation, and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project . . . though not the Trump Foundation or whatever world-healing efforts George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Dan Quayle may be leading.)

Here’s why. Three minutes.

Want to […]

When I started writing these posts in 1996 — at $500 a pop for the first three years — I took no time off.  Hey: $500 for a half hour’s work?  Do you even begin to know how money motivates me?  Once the money stopped, I found myself working harder on them — some perverse […]

Cort: “At your invitation, I stand ready to set up my Fundraising Page and start inviting all of my friends and acquaintances to donate to the DNC.  But I haven’t done it yet, because I am so profoundly concerned about what our party is NOT doing in Congress.  Call me picky or stingy, but I […]

A minute with Barack.

Nine with Trevor Noah.

But really most powerful of all — if you watch nothing else — these three minutes with Ms. Thunberg speaking directly to us.

Even though she doesn’t come from a s—hole country (she’s Nordic!), Republicans are too smart to fall for her pitch (though […]

He is a:

Liar

Racist

Sociopath

Fascist

Russian asset

Who loves autocrats, obstructs justice, and kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside.

→ If you doubt any of this, click the links for substantiation.

About 40% of us have bought the notion that it’s all […]

But first:

On recycling/reusing (from Tuesday) . . . two delightful NPR Planet Money podcasts:  WHY we recycle.  (It started with a funny story and the mob.)  And, more to the point, SHOULD we recycle.  (Oh, God.  It turns out: maybe not.)

You are allowed one reusable water bottle.  And one

This review of “Where’s My Roy Cohn” — opening tomorrow in New York and LA, and 100 other screens in the weeks to come — is almost lyrical . . . and is as compelling as the film itself.

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,” sang Leonard Cohen, who died the day before […]

Following up on Monday . . .

Paul deLespinasse:  “Here is my take on Brexit, which also supports a second referendum, perhaps initiated by Queen Elizabeth II.”

It makes so much sense.