I finally got around to reading this article on climate change, and what we can do about it. I can’t say I really learned anything new (I’ve been a big fan of a carbon tax for awhile now), and while I’d recommend reading the whole thing, this portion sums up why the right-wing’s opposition to carbon taxes is so absurd:

This reaction — this extreme pessimism about the economy’s ability to live with cap and trade — is very much at odds with typical conservative rhetoric. After all, modern conservatives express a deep, almost mystical confidence in the effectiveness of market incentives — Ronald Reagan liked to talk about the “magic of the marketplace.” They believe that the capitalist system can deal with all kinds of limitations, that technology, say, can easily overcome any constraints on growth posed by limited reserves of oil or other natural resources. And yet now they submit that this same private sector is utterly incapable of coping with a limit on overall emissions, even though such a cap would, from the private sector’s point of view, operate very much like a limited supply of a resource, like land. Why don’t they believe that the dynamism of capitalism will spur it to find ways to make do in a world of reduced carbon emissions? Why do they think the marketplace loses its magic as soon as market incentives are invoked in favor of conservation?

i found this floating around my hard drive the other day. do you remember this, andrew? (it’s funny; i actually like the kneading part, but I do miss your pizza stone – something that seemed so superfluous at the time now seems like a core part of a kitchen!)

andrew’s bread machine from David on Vimeo.

This is a little late (Happy Thanksgiving and first day of December, everyone) but I just got around to posting the pictures from the road trip J and I took before I started my new job back in Seattle. Here they are: