8/27/08
-EUGENE LINDEN
As the presidential campaign enters its final months, here's an unsolicited suggestion:
“As I stand here today on the shore of Lake Lanier in Georgia, I’m sure that many of you are wondering why I’ve chosen to talk about climate chang...
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6/14/08
-EUGENE LINDEN
Former colleagues and friends hint that Scott McClellan's White House tell-all book, What Happened, reflects the influence of liberals during the editing process. "Something changed," said Ari Fleischer on NPR on May 28, "...parts of the...
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1/24/08
EUGENE LINDEN
I’ve been to a number of places where wild animals are trusting of humans, but perhaps none so unlikely as Midway Atoll, smack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. After more than a century of abuse at the hands of man -- first being sla...
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10/27/07
EUGENE LINDEN
[This musing ran in July on Huffington Post, but it's quite relevant today as the credit crisis continues to spread]
I lead two lives. Three days a week, I'm employed as chief investment strategist for a hedge fund that specializ...
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6/16/07
[This is a slightly longer version of an essay that first appeared in Business Week]
Eugene Linden
With global oil production basically stalled for the past two years, the controversial prediction that the world is fast approaching maximum oil outpu...
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11/23/06
Faced with overwhelming evidence that climate is changing at an accelerating rate, the naysayers seem to be regrouping around a new meme: yes earth is warming, but humanity is not the cause. One champion of this position is Senator James Inhofe of Oklahom...
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9/15/06
HE WAS LOST AND NOW HE IS FOUND.
On Saturday, August 12, we were having a family barbecue in Pelham New York, having just moved up from Washington, DC a week earlier. It was just my wife and our two kids and her brother, his wife and their twins. The ev...
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8/9/06
Climate change is going to creep up on us. The assault might have started already.
By Eugene Linden (7/30/06)
I've written a good deal about global warming over the years, but like most people, I still have a hard time envisioning how we will know w...
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6/23/06
[Since a number of friends have had babies in recent months, I thought I resurrect this musing on the unique physics of the baby world]
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS FOR BABIES
Close observation of babies has led me to believe that the infant universe is char...
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4/10/06
5 Things To Expect Dick Cheney To Do As Global Warming Intensifies
[Adapted from my contribution to Duck!, a new humorous anthology of advice for Dick Cheney]
If climate turns out to be the weapon of mass destruction Vice President Cheney should have be...
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3/29/06
Even Bush's business allies have seen the light on global warming. But he's dug in.
A BELEAGUERED president stubbornly insists on staying the course even as his staunchest allies abandon him. I'm not talking about Iraq, but global warming.
Here's a c...
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3/7/06
[I thought I would re-run this from 2003 because it is still appropriate today.]
Bush, Saddam and Climate Change: What Might Have Been
Wednesday, Jul. 16, 2003
As the hunt for Saddam's WMD begins to look as promising as OJ's search for t...
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1/9/06
[It’s probably dumb to try and put a humorous spin on the abortion issue and the Alito hearings, but here goes anyway.]
-- Eugene Linden
Pro-Life group says fire NASA chief
By Lamatty Hurstwhistle
Sentinel and Post Staff Writer
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This ran in TIME.com a while back under the headline, "Who's Going to Pay for Climate Change." The essay has renewed salience as concerns about changing climate surface once again.
By EUGENE LINDEN
The Bush administration, so warlike in r...
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A few weeks back, President Bush signed a budget measure that would effectively cut environmental protection spending by the EPA over the next year by about six percent. Score another win for the corporate Browns in their long-standing rivalry with the...
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Wall Street is the undertaker beetle of statistics: the markets voraciously consume, digest and then forget the numbers churned out by the keepers of vital economic statistics each week. Every now and then, however, a statistic pops up that g...
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Erectile dysfunction is ascendant, so to speak. The Super Bowl displayed a trifecta of impotence potions as the makers of the three main drugs –- Levitra, Cialis, and Viagra-- all ponied up millions to advertise. Obscured by the debate about some of the c...
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Eugene Linden
As we make fateful decisions during the coming weeks (no, I'm not talking about the Democratic Primaries, but whether to mute the ads or the game during the Super Bowl), we might take a moment to ponder the ways in which football really ...
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Bush, Saddam and Climate Change: What Might Have Been
Wednesday, Jul. 16, 2003
As the hunt for Saddam's WMD begins to look as promising as OJ's search for the real killers, it becomes tempting to think about what might have been. If only, for instance, ...
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Global climate change could have a far greater impact than worries about terrorism or disease
Friday, May. 02, 2003
When it comes to evaluating risks, both ordinary people and policymakers tend to be wildly inefficient. Remember that in the 1970s, int...
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Deserts briefly bloom...
Hungrily, newborn monsters
Claw towards the light
by Eugene Linden...
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by Eugene Linden
There is one sure-fire way to bring an eerily disengaged American public into the debate about whether to invade Iraq: bring back the draft. In 1971, even though I opposed the Vietnam War and received an honorable discharge from the ...
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Eugene Linden
Close observation of babies has led me to believe that the infant universe is characterized by its own physics, quite distinct from particle physics or the Newtonian laws of motion. I welcome and will periodically post suggestions ab...
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This article ran in Forbes FYI a few years ago. It seems timely again with the ongoing debate about wether fat is good or bad.
Let Us Now Praise Fat
Historically, there are some good reasons why humans crave a fatty diet
by Eugene Li...
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Don't Bother Me Honey, I'm Working!
by Eugene Linden
It used to be so easy for a husband to justify his working life. He went off in the morning and then returned that evening. What he did during the day constituted "work." While wives, who too...
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