How do we immunize ourselves from all the fruh-ha of the fast talkers? Here are some views and clues you might choose to use: Occam’s razor (compare the speaker’s overly complex assumptions with your own simple ones); instead of answering misleading questions, ask the speaker about the important problems; if it’s not about more positive relations among people and more positive relations with nature, than maybe it’s not worth listening to. Plus more fossil fuel and clean energy news, unions, Asian carp, solar aircraft, and more.

Tunes:

Oscar Peterson Trio: It Ain’t Necessarily So from Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin

Thelonius Monk: Thelonius from Underground

Al Green: Look What You Done For Me from Here I Am

Aretha Franklin: Running Out of Fools from Jazz to Soul

Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man from Twentieth-Century Masters: The Best of Chuck Berry

Bob Dylan: Buckets of Rain from Blood on the Tracks

Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People from Sly

Bob Marley: Redemption Song from Uprising