http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com Being a Series of Ruminations upon the Collapse of the Global Empire and Our Life in the Ruins Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:13:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sure it's an outrageous idea. But... Google and Apple cooperate in many areas. The CEO of Google is on Apple's board. Google has no desire to compete with Apple. Selling gadgets isn't part of Google's business plan. It's in the information/advertising business. Apple is in the gadget business. Android phones will allegedly be available ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/android-on-iphone/ World Made by Hand - a Novel Author: James Howard Kunstler 336 pages ISBN: 0-87113-978-2 2008, Atlantic Monthly Press www.worldmadebyhand.com This book could more precisely, but less poetically, be named "World Made by Kunstler". Author and Peak Oil commentator James Howard Kunstler has written a novel that brings to life a community and world that Kunstler ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/04/29/book-review-world-made-by-hand/ After the Peak - The End of Cheap Oil 27 minute DVD www.afterthepeak.com After the Peak is a mock-TV news program. It's presented as if live from a local television station in North Carolina, with anchors in the studio reporting and talking to reporters in the field. And, yes, there's even the ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/04/23/movie-review-after-the-peak-the-end-of-cheap-oil/ Just because we're losing jobs doesn't mean there isn't hope in the future. Watch the video. http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/03/28/job-market-2009/ Empires come. Empires go. If there's any doubt that the British Empire is long past--and the American Empire headed downhill--it's dispelled in this article in today's New York Times: Ford Sells Luxury Brands for $1.7 Billion. Ford Motor Company, once great automobile company in the former British colony now known as the ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/03/26/irony-upon-irony-former-jewel-of-the-empire-buys-symbol-of-the-empire/ This column was in the Napa Valley Register. It's by Ed Schwartz, who writes for the Nob Hill Gazette in San Francisco, and is a long-time public relations guy in the wine industry. Dan Berger of Sonoma County has for long been one of our heroes of wine writing for ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/03/15/our-nomination-for-the-most-useful-column-on-wine-ever-written/ If you're feeling cheery today, here's a little untonic that should ground you a bit. "...we are now resolutely stepping into an era with no historical precedent. Our researchers insisted on that many times in the last two years: any comparison with the previous crises of our modern economy would ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/03/07/european-think-tank-predicts-collapse-of-us-economy-by-end-of-third-quarter-2008/ For 49 years Fidel Castro has outfoxed and bamboozled the U.S. government. Ten separate administrations in the White House have been at a total loss in how to deal with Castro: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush Jr. Not one of them, with the possible exception ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/02/19/fidel-resigns-washington-surprised-as-usual/ George Monbiot in the Guardian has written what I consider the best, and most accessible, summary of the biofuel fantasy, Apart from used chip fat, there is no such thing as a sustainable biofuel. http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/02/14/monbiot-on-the-biofuel-fantasy/ George W. has been badly misjudged by many people. He has been accused of acting against his campaign promise in 2000 that he would not be a "nation builder". Many consider his efforts to create democratic, capitalist governments in Afghanistan and Iraq as "nation building". Not so. George W. ... http://www.chickenlittlewasright.com/wordpress/2008/02/05/george-w-bush-a-man-of-his-word/