This Year's Girl.

See her picture in a thousand places
'cause she's this year's girl.
You think you all own little pieces
of this year's girl.
Forget your fancy manners,
forget your English grammar,
'cause you don't really give a damn
about this year's girl.

Lyrics: Elvis Costello.

James Howard Kunstler, author:

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, 1993.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, 2005.

Richard Heinberg, author:

A New Covenant With Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture, 1996.

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, 2003.


Confucius Say:

"Beware those recycling old fortunes in new fortune cookies."