The teabaggers are absolutely fascinating, more diaries about them please! They have made me reconsider old Marxist concpetions which I've until now always considered absolutely clownish, like "false consciousness": False consciousness is the Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes. These processes betray the true relations of forces between those classes.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.