Monday, June 12

Weekend Digest: Truth Serum. What can I say? I help people find something to read!

What's Unsettling, Bamboozling, Disconcerting, Lightweight and Unpredictable? ;)

Probiotics

Looking Ahead: De-Salinization

Care Bears, all grown up?

We got work to do. Even if it takes an Olympics, China facing the facts. Excellent report on the country of over a billion. Not any easier for no. 2...
We could use some 'slapping ourselves on the face'. The report is in, edits finished(don't ask the White House), the well is running dry and there's a red house over yonder. Drink up, America. While the water still costs less than wine(but more than gas!).
Excerpt:" The State of the Rockies 2006 Report Card made headlines because its modeling strongly shows that with more greenhouse gases, linked to the burning of fossil fuels, pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, precipitation patterns and temperatures will dramatically change. The Northern Plains of Montana is expected to experience the most extreme rise in average annual temperature between 1976 and the year 2085, climbing about 6.5 degrees CELSIUS." 43.7f
Your whats for Dinner

Seen an Inconvenient Truth yet? Quibbles:(George) Will he?

Iraq: Cost of a Life

Energy Chessboard Informative, more so than American press. I guess the world press is also responsible for mainstreaming phrases such as "ripping into" and "slamming".

Speaking of which, this country needs tougher penalties for 'mowing down' bicycle riders. R.I.P.
Ashes to ashes.
Don't make me take my pants off.

Wednesday, June 7

News and Views

Cellars well When USA today does 'a special', the party may soon be over. Check out the map, and see the 5o year forecast for your neighborhood. Clammy yet?

Corporate Welfare awash, ye maties!

An interview with Michael Pollan author of The Omnivore'e Dilemma and the Botany of Desire

Your Town! Sustainability Rankings

the Genghis in You

Pretty cool! History is EvrYwhere!

On the Couch

One of my guilty pleasures of this century has been 'The Sopranos'. Most of all, a half dozen seasons (a relationship!) of one paricular set of scenes--more than all the other gummahs, violence, and family schtuff. Just a man and his therapist.

Listen. She rocks anyhoo....

Britain Still Has a Free Press

And they can report on Global Sea Changes

Oops, truth out!

Saturday, June 3

Friday, May 26

Call him what you want

I'll call him Al

juice

oil

Depends on your definition of 'bad'. Really, I don't think Darth Vader is any more real...

Thursday, May 18

Yay May

On Prospect, On Tompkins, On L(onger!) S(pring!) D(ays)

SnorkleNow

Before Daddy takes our flippers away

Bananas

None for anyone. Got your attention?

B-b-b-b-bad

Badness only skin deep?
Now here's any area I have convictions forming. Who hell wants the state, or any private corporation to have divinity over their remains?
Discuss.

Ride On

Who knows, this article may be a little fluffy. But there ain't nothing fluffy about whatever might cause one to shed 50 or 60 pounds. And feel better.

Wednesday, May 3

Tuesday, May 2

Tax Breaks and Benjamins, Just Go Away

Oops, if Rush and Brit Hume are pissed....

Wise Men Speak:
David Winston, a Republican pollster who advises the Senate Republican leadership, called the rebate an intuitive way to show voters that Republicans were on their side. "It is like putting the American family budget ahead of oil company profits," Mr. Winston said. "How do you help the American families out? Well, give them some money."