Gerald R. Lucas

Today was my first day back for the spring term. I didn’t have to teach today, only advise. I’ve always considered myself pretty poor at advising, but I had several students today — all of whom I think I was able to help. It seems like the only difficulty I really have at advising is [...]

Yes, it is. As I’ve been saying, we need to address global warming in a radical way, and maybe Obama is the man to do it. We’ve ignored global warming for too long, doing nothing during the embarrassing administration of George W. Bush — perhaps making the problem worse by not ratifying Kyoto and putting [...]

This video just points out the absurdity of Proposition 8 and ideologies that inform referenda like it. It reminds me of something the late, great George Carlin said (and I paraphrase poorly): right-wing anti-abortionists should be pro-gay. Who has less abortions than homosexuals? Thanks to Becca for the original post on FB. While you’re there, [...]

I’ve got gardens growing, got quiet days clothes on my back, food on my plate got friends to help me if I call for them don’t need anything I don’t have got eyes to see this beautiful land feet to take me where I want to stand if there’s work to be done, I’ve got [...]

Join us in rejecting the ti(red) notion that shopping is a reasonable response to human suffering. The US makes up 5% of the world’s population, but we consume 25% of the world’s natural resources. Our prosperity creates a disparity in the rest of the world. We need to stop buying so much junk. When we [...]

Even though I understand the importance of Georgia’s runoff election today for the Senate, I’m not confident in the outcome. In my experience, the typical Georgian is about as politically progressive as a desert is lush. Yes, there is a community that understands that Saxby Chambliss is a card-carrying Bush-Cheney Republian, but I think the [...]

In a recent issues of Newsweek [via Truthout], Fareed Zakaria interviews Al Gore about environmentalism and the auto industry. Gore supports a “bail out” only so far as it allows GM to stay competitive — i.e., technologically and and economically. This is telling: When I was vice president, I initiated a program called the Partnership [...]