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: On employer sacrifice, and employee greed
I HAVE TAKEN THE PLEDGE AND WILL REFRAIN for an (unspecified!) period from commentary concerning the central potentially overriding environmental calamity looming over our future. However, because this will be published on June 8 and that date has been designated “World Oceans Day,” I call your attention to the many powerful and fascinating (and frightening!) […]
Jerome Page: Melting ice, and a salute to my critics
BEFORE MOVING TO A WARMING TOPIC, I thought to share with my readers a bit of my inspired fan mail as presented in the comments section of The Herald’s website. This is to confirm for all those who distrust my commentary that others do share their angst and that, while not quite in agreement, I […]
Jerome Page: Democracy, corporate style!
WE MOVE NOW TO THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH of that ALEC-sponsored “solution in search of a problem,” the voter ID phenomenon. To see a graphic display of the recent growth of voter ID laws, go to “Flurry of Photo ID Laws Tied to Conservative Washington Group,” by Ethan Magoc (News21), published Aug. 12, 2012. Scan down […]
Jerome Page: A fresh approach to democracy!
SURELY ONE OF THE CONSTRUCTIVE AND STATESMANLIKE PROGRAMS being carried out by the Republican Party of the United States today is its effort to guarantee that our elections are free from the taint of “politics.” Wherever one travels, north, south, east or west, one encounters the strong hand of the GOP insuring against fraud, tightening […]
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: Happy Easter!
TO MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES, to liberals, progressives, conservatives, right wing, left wing, centrists — to decline-to-statists — to all of Benicia, this lovely town we share: Happy Easter! Today is clearly a day for removing the barriers, junking the labels and recriminations and rejoicing together. The excited children are surely uninterested in politics — […]
Jerome Page: The perils of reality denied
FIRST, A (PARTIAL!) PAUSE FROM THE UNENDING AND UNENVIABLE TASK of responding to those folks who feel that denying reality (climate change) often enough and cleverly or vehemently enough will release us all from the heavy burdens of that future reality. I want to acknowledge a debt (of reader pleasure) to two outstanding columnists, Carolyn […]
Jerome Page: Science versus the corporate world
FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW I HAVE BEEN ENDEAVORING to make my pitch for sanity in our handling of the issues related to global warming. I have a huge stockpile of pieces, many hundreds, dominated by the opinions and the research — much of that the very basic research of the most qualified climate scientists in […]
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 […]