Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma says since I’m always on patrol anyway, I can be the Guard Cat and guard the house against viruses! I asked what kind of viruses, and it sounded like she said macaroni. But that can’t be…

MIT’s Technology review has a good article this week: The unholy alliance of covid-19, nationalism, and climate change. Among other things, it says: The question, of course, is what happens as the pandemic recedes. In theory, this presents a new opportunity to get climate progress…

You know the motivational anecdote of the kid who got a pile of manure for Christmas, and grabbed a shovel and started diggging on the theory that there couldn’t be that much manure without there being a pony somewhere? Well, these pictures are like that…