Interesting stuff from Paul Andrews on the California power crisis:
Go read the rest (scroll to "Crisis? What Crisis?").
- For all its incredible wealth, [California] suffers an impoverishment of human values...
- Californians nourish crisis because it feeds their need to feel special...
- If everyone simply shut down for an hour a day and did something meaningful, like read a good book, it would not only solve the energy crisis but create a more humane climate...
Go read the rest (scroll to "Crisis? What Crisis?").