How Environmental Are You? Take the Quiz.

As regular visitors know, I try to lighten up a bit on Sundays. I put a lot of energy into talking about remarks made by Ann Coulter yesterday, because I think our language choices are really important, and the language choices of public figures seeking to influence others even more important.
After all the talking about […]

With Oscars, Hollywood Leads America to an International Vision

As the U.S. continues to “go it alone” in the world with regard not only to neocon-style hegemony but also regarding environmental treaties, war crimes treaties, weapons bans, land mines, and transmitting any other number of insults to critics and allies alike, there is a large moneyed faction of “ordinary americans” seeking to take up […]

A World Without Liberals

The site noted in Paly’s post, quoted below, has additional nasty stuff on it. Paly notes irony in the text of a t-shirt sold on the site. I might congratulate right-wingers for discovering irony, finally, even when it’s turned against people like me. Unfortunately, much of their stuff seems to like to dance on the […]

Time To Get Off Our Asses and Do Something

I’m talking to me and I’m talking to you. Some folks are doing everything they can. This is for the rest of us. I sit in my comfy dining room or home office and tap away posting blog entries. It’s great for venting bile and preaching to the choir. Most of my hits in the […]

Andrew Sullivan’s Amazing Intellect Falls Prey to Bush-Think

On the eve of his move to the more prestigious Atlantic Monthly, conservative standard bearer undermines scientific standards in defense of AEI
The basics: Exxon-funded American Enterprise Insttiute (AEI, in acronym-speak) offered $10k to scientists to write papers that refute the proposition that human activity causes global warming.
More basics: Legitimate science does not start with the […]

Liberal Mac User Grumblings About the Hillary Chat

I didn’t see it. I sent some provocative questions beforehand that I knew she’d be too good a politician to take on in her first chat. The video would not play on a Mac, or at least not my office Mac which is a WAY cool Intel Quad Xeon thing. I stayed late at the […]

Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth Banned in Schools

How wonderful it is that there are still parents in the Judeo-Christian tradition willing to sacrifice their children to God. Like their forefather, Abraham, Federal Way School District parents, in Washington state are ready to condemn their progeny.
Abraham, as I remember from Sunday School, obeyed his God with a sense of grief. The folks […]

Review: Who Killed The Electric Car?

This is a great documentary, now out on dvd, that thoroughly covers the shenanigans around the birth and death of the electric car, the EV1 from General Motors Saturn division in the late-1990s to early 2000s. It’s really worth a look.
The film conveys the kind of excitement an auto buff feels at an auto show, […]

Auld Lang Syne?

For Old Times sake? I, for one, am ready for new times.
2006 was the year when the winds finally began to shift. It’s been a tough century for progressives — so far. The outcome of the Fall elections may be a blip on the political timeline, but just may be a harbinger of good […]

“Let Them Eat Clones!”

The FDA reports that the meat and milk of cloned animals pose no unique risks to consumers. Looking past my visceral reactions to such news I have to say that I imagine that on the face of the issue the FDA is accurate. I see no reason that a cloned animal that reaches maturity in […]

Give Kucinich a good look

I want to post substantially more about Dennis Kucinich whom I belive walks the walk with more integrity than most progressive politicians out there. Especially after posting on four of the so-called front-runners. This post is a heads-up to check him out. More to come.
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