I’m busier than a one-armed paper hanger these days and hardly have time to sit down at the computer but I’ve always got time to read what James Kunstler (Author of The Long Emergency) has to say. The man is a laser beam.  His current piece ➡ on what’s going on here in America is well worth a read.
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