Posted in Economics & Globalization, Politics & Public Policy, Technology & Science, tagged advancements, alternative, balance, Big Oil, blame, brown energy, bullet train, buzzword, capital, clean, collaborative, commodities, cooperative, crisis, debate, drilling, Economics & Globalization, efficient, environmentalists, food, food insecurity, fuel, future, geothermal, gouging, Green, highway, history, hovercraft, imagine, incentives, inflation, infrastructure, innovation, invention, Iran, jobs, market, myths, not in my backyard, oil, partisan, partnership, petro, petro hoarding, political, Popular Science, power, price hikes, prices, private, privatize, profit, progress, public, pump, railroad, renewable, renewable resources, resource, rhetoric, risk, scarcity, solution, space, speculation, subsidy, surge, sustainable, tax break, Technology & Science, transportation, truth, values, venture capital, vision, water, wind, world, WPA on March 18, 2012|
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Quick! What type of world did you imagine when you were a kid? Did you foresee yourself darting about in a hovercraft much like the cartoon family in the Jetsons? Vacationing on the moon? A lean, mean greener world? How is it that we find ourselves these many years, decades even, down the road and we’re still looking at a society that in so many ways is what it once was: the world that petroleum built? Decades after the Carter-era gasoline shortages, now with the prospect of $6 gasoline looming before us, we have little to show for our grand hopes and great visions. We’re still talking about moving off foreign oil even as the buzzword “energy independence” has become firmly entrenched in our lexicon. So little, so late.
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Posted in Politics & Public Policy, tagged academia, accountability, activism, activist, administration, affirmative action, agenda, America, Appeals Court, Associated Press, Berkley, bigoted, blind, candidate, cases, caucasians, character, class, congress, conscience, consequence, Constitution, convey, country, court, courtroom, cultural, culture wars, diabetes, Dianne Feinstein, discrimination, dominance, eccentric, elitism, empowerment, equality, ethnic, ethnicity, ethnocentric, fire fighters, fixation, gender, Harriet Miers, heritage, Hispanic, history, hubris, human experience, human nature, humanity, identity, identity politics, institutionalized, jockeying, judgment, judicial seat, justice, knowledge, La Raza, language, Latina, law, lawsuits, lecture, liberal, loose cannons, marginalization, nation, nominee, Obama, Obama administration, one-upmanship, perception, politically incorrect, poor, power, power structures, president, pride, privileged, professor, proud, race relations, racialist, racism, radicalization, rational, regrets, restitution, reverse discrimination, Robert Gibbs, SCOTUS, self esteem, self identification, self promotion, selfish, sentiments, sexism, shortsighted, social position, social theorists, Sonia Sotomayor, speech, statement, studies, subjugate, superior, superiority, Supreme Court, tapestry, thought form, true colors, UC, university, US, vetting, victimhood, victimization, vision, vitriol, voters, white male, wiser, words on May 30, 2009|
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Prospective Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor has yet to complete the vetting process but already controversy over a comment she made in 2001 has erupted. In “A Latina Judge’s Voice“, a lecture presented at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, Sotomayor said that her Latina heritage undeniably plays a role in her judgments. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Sotomayor told her audience.
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