When did it become so fashionable for the United States to have czars for everything? Apparently, the first “drug czar” was appointed at the height of the cold war. Do we have nostalgia for the good old days in pre-communist Russia?
[Tags]Working Families Czar, Joe Biden, Czar, Language, Politics[/Tags]
Still Falling
[Tags]Snow, Blizzard, Boston[/Tags]
Via Steve (new domain name, otherwise as usual), this inspiring little PowerPoint-ish presentation from Dr. Steven Chu, Obama’s choice for Secretary of Energy:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfLaQUD86Mw[/youtube]
This video features about as many charts per minute as did An Inconvenient Truth, but left me far more hopeful about our long-term prospects on Earth. It is reassuring to see so many powerful positions being filled by people with domain expertise, rather than partisan hacks. If this administration doesn’t get us back on course, we might as well stop having children.
[Tags]Steven Chu, Obama, Climate Change, Energy, Environment[/Tags]
