Dedication

Blogging has gotten so easy that no barrier prevents the creation of
Weblogs devoted to very narrow topics. Narrow but politically charged
topics will of course invite stray conversations but none the less,
let me kick _this_ one off with the following statement about the
intended topic:

The comments and the links dragged in here should focus on practical
means of living or making a living that will still work after or
in spite of the collapse of wastefuel [yes, a coinage] industrial
and lifestyle practices. Greenies won't need this preaching and
most Democrats and all Republicans won't even know what we are
talking about. Somewhere underneath all the hyperbole and mistrust
there are simple things that real people can do, without needing
a law or a subsidy, to put food on the table, keep their water
clean and ward off frostbite. If all you are worried about is
how you are going to pay for your kids college, zoom out to a
bigger picture...in what world are they going to apply that
expensive education? What are education and for that matter,
money, going to mean when no amount of money will drag another
barrel of oil out of anybody's patch of this earth? Almost by
definition, the means and ways we hope to discover links for or
see discussed here cannot cost much. The solutions presented here
may not have an obvious or at least economically compelling
problem in the strangely naive world of 2004 U.S.A. but the bias
and assumption expected in this blog is that the matter is one
of when, not if, these problems will emerge.
Think "socialist survivalist with a Phd" and you may be in tune
with this blog.