What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?
This woman will be worth watching; a healthy alternative to the Palins and Bachmanns, even in the farcical world that is American political 'choice'.
The Republican party will pull out all its dark oppo magic to try and sully her reputation and sadly, the mainstream press will launder their dirty work for them as they obligingly did this week by ginning up a psuedo-scandal about her salary when working for the government on the CPFB. (Evidently, one had to cross reference a couple of different reports to find out that she made the astonishing sum of 64,000 dollars over the course of 2009 and 2010)
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
