Hammer Mill Days

Did you upload the episode on time? Marvin? Can you hear me? Oh, Jesus. Not again. Right ... Hey, anti-Lincoln! Plug Marvin in for a couple of hours. Make yourself useful! Hi, good people. I'm pretty sure Marvin (my personal robot assistant) uploaded the August episode of our podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN - our fifth anniversary broadcast! - over the last couple of days, but until he has a decent charge on him I can't be sure. If you listened to it, you know a lot of what I planned to tell you today. But because I am a pedantic motherfucker, I fully intend to tell you about it anyway. Here's what we got under the hood. Ned Trek 29: Error of Mercy - This latest episode of our Star Trek political parody audio melodrama is based on the classic Star Trek episode titled "Errand of Mercy". (For you non-aficionados, here's the IMDB listing .) The crew of the Free Enterprise arrives at the planet Origami just ahead of the Confederation's arch rivals, the Cleento...

Time to face facts: I've got newsitis. Can't take my mind off of the ongoing cycle of awful public policy stories. In homage to this obsession and temporary ADD, I will run through a few top of mind items and attempt to keep them brief. Nuclear summer. Here in New York State, our always forward-looking government recently decided to sink up to around $7 billion over the next dozen years to subsidize our aging nuclear power plants, particularly the Fitzpatrick plant up in Scriba, NY. Part of an effort to advance so-called "clean" energy, we will now be further subsidizing this moribund industry, underwriting the transfer of this 40-year-old plant to another massive electrical utility. Meanwhile, in my home county, they have canceled a major solar energy generation project. What's wrong with this picture? (Actually, what's right with it?) His ass said it. Trump is making that pivot all right... pivoting right into where he was before. I think some of the ...