Just when you thought it was safe to plan for Father’s Day, Cej disappoints dads everywhere with the return of the shocking and all too true (if parodied) comic about America’s greatest president.
Tag Archive: environment
Mar 06 2012
Burning Question
Click to enlarge. The phenomenon of climate change is well established within the scientific community. Unfortunately, the science is not what you see in the popular media. At one extreme, you have people denying that climate change is real. At the other extreme, you have movies like The Day After Tomorrow showing widespread planetary destruction. …
Aug 27 2011
Escape from New York (not the movie)
Cej and Mark! are trapped in NYC! First an earthquake and now a hurricane. If they don’t make a comic out of this….
Apr 22 2011
Celebrate Earth Day
Click to enlarge. Celebrate Earth Day the old fashion way: do nothing. Global climate change is here. It’s not about preventing it anymore. We’ve pumped so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that even if we were to stop burning all fossil fuels today (which we won’t), we’d still be looking at …
Feb 08 2011
Cold Snap
Click to enlarge. It’s cold in the winter. Some people think that cold weather disproves global warming. That’s because they don’t understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather measures the local environmental conditions, typically on the scale of hours or days. Climate measures the average environmental conditions over larger scales of time, typically on …
Aug 20 2010
Your Handy Dandy Guide to Composting
Click to enlarge. This is a little guide that I created to assist my friend Erin with her new composter. I’m fascinated by decay and rebirth. And dirt is where it happens. I’ve been composting for years—taking overripe fruit and unused ruffage and turning them into good healthy soil. (Although, strictly speaking, it’s the micro-organisms …
Jul 28 2010
Overpopulation
Click to enlarge. I worry about lots of stuff; and the idea that we are now at 6.7 BILLION people on the planet kinda terrifies me. Of course, when I mention this to people, I get funny looks (at best). Although we Americans live in the “developed world,” overpopulation does affect us. It can be …
Jun 23 2010
Slick
Click to enlarge. I guess I’m not real worried about the cost of the clean up to BP. At $40 million a day in profit, they can afford to employ many of the out-of-work people. Just using Tony Hayward’s salary ($4.7 m/yr), BP could hire a couple hundred people for a year. Obviously, money alone …
Dec 05 2009
Cold Snap
Click to enlarge. It snowed today in Houston, an admittedly rare event in this part of the world. In addition to icy water, such an episode releases a flurry of right wingers and people who got no better than Cs in science telling me how “this proves Al Gore wrong.” Setting aside the misdirected animosity, …
Aug 06 2008
Living Like Ed
Begley, Jr., Ed. Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2008. Like many forward-thinkers, Ed Begley Jr. is often lampooned over his concern for the environment. And the title and the cover of this book certainly plays into that image. But nothing about its contents is ego-centric. In fact, …















