BEFORE LAUNCHING INTO ANOTHER VERSION OF MY VIEW of the social and political and environmental realities of our day, of this day and time, I am forced to hold up — to question just what I am about. Are we faced with the crisis of a climate that becomes increasingly responsive to the manifold insults […]
Jerome Page: Bulletins from the battlefield
Patriots, take heart, there are still a few out there who put principle and freedom ahead of surrender to the monolithic state. Consider the following from TPM DC, “Red States Hatch Plans To Block Obamacare Even If Dems Take Over,” by Dylan Scott, April 22: “Republicans are taking no chances when it comes to Obamacare’s […]
Jerome Page: On fracking, chapter two
SINCE OPENING THE SUBJECT OF FRACKING THREE WEEKS AGO, I have found myself buried in a literature on the subject simultaneously huge and profoundly dispiriting. To begin to grasp the enormity of the problems and dangers involved in the explosive growth of fracking as one of the central components of America’s energy development present and […]
Jerome Page: On the heartbreak of Rex and Dick
FIRST TODAY, I BRING YOU THE HEARTRENDING STORY of a man who has labored all his life to achieve his heart’s desire, a lovely home in Denton, Texas, a Dallas suburb, only to learn it was facing the desecration of a fracking water tower in the neighborhood. (For water supply, not actual fracking.) It is […]