RT @NextNature Plastic is a new material in ecosystem http://www.nextnature.net/2010/08/plastic-is-a-new-material-in-the-earths-ecosystem/
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House minority ldr Boehner thinks taxpayer money should be used to clean up spill. Not a dime for HCR, but $$$ for BP. http://tpm.ly/bEULTH In our national debate about illegal immigration there seems to be one side that is never mentioned. Decriminalizing immigration. What if we opened our borders and allowed anyone who wanted to enter or exit? Would this be the end of our nation as we know it, or would we barely notice the difference? Or, would [...] Let’s hope he does it for all his sites – Murdoch’s Next Step: Hiding UK Times Articles from Search Engines http://shar.es/mjrHu Back from vacation, relaxed and ready to go. Two thoughtful opinions about the political “anti-incumbent” mood. http://tpm.ly/a9ZAYp 40 years of drug war have failed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_on_re_us/failed_drug_war House Repubs use porn amendment to kill science jobs bill. http://tpm.ly/cWqpuh No essay today, just some links and idle thoughts. *** You know what the most marginalized group in America is? Atheists. Seven of the United States include religious tests that preclude atheists from holding office in that state. Imagine a world where seven states stated specifically in their constitution that gays could not hold office, or that [...] The Sunshine state should use sunshine for its power needs. While the environmental damage from this spill is horrific enough, even more heart-wrenching is that eleven people died feeding our oil addiction. Their deaths could have been avoided, just as the recent deaths of the miners in West Virginia could have been avoided. “Coast Guard and [...] @RobbyWales i was just thinking the same thing. Blog posts from Re/Creating Tampa are tweeted here: http://twitter.com/recreatingtampa Marco Rubio ads running here in Tampa during Lost. Adopts Obama’s “Yes we can,” as crowd chant in background. Off to The Refinery for some fancy food. http://www.thetamparefinery.com/ Tampa Bay Breakfasts (not surprisingly) reviews breakfast places in Tampa Bay http://www.tampabaybreakfasts.com/ @tomtomorrow Obama uses his private army (aka AmeriCorp) to collect the guns. The next round of FB changes http://bit.ly/9SXFwV 6.5 million new Community Pgs, changes to how you become a fan, & privacy changes @steamykitchen maker’s mark on the rocks while i watch the episode of Breaking Bad I recorded earlier. Jay Rosen re-imagines CNN’s primetime line-up – http://bit.ly/9TIR4P Probably, if Apple knew that Mark Fiore was going to win the Pulitzer in April 2010 they wouldn’t have rejected his request to sell an iPhone application in December 2009. Fiore’s app, which reproduces his political cartoons, was rejected because “it contains content that ridicules public figures.” So, when you’re reading your newspaper on the iPad, how [...] Closing out the week of babies I want to welcome Ayan. Hi, Ayan! Welcome to planet Earth! (And, congratulations to the proud mama and papa.) No pictures yet, but I want to welcome young Taliarose to the world. You’re gonna be an awesome mama, MC! I have a deep, unnatural love for auto-tuning. Here’s a clip of various scientists, explaining science, auto-tuned. As Richard Dawkins says “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.” “The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science [...] Work, work, work, so no time for writing new posts today. Instead, I’ll kick off Politics Monday with a joke I found on the Internet. *** A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you [...] I’m hanging out in the Jury auditorium at the Hillsborough County Courthouse listening to a canned history lecture from Pat Frank explaining the origins of the clerk of the circuit court. She has more than 1000 individual responsibilities! The auditorium has wifi and some nice desks for computer users to sit at, so the day won’t [...] I have been getting a ton of hits lately from people searching for information about Krampus. Searches point to a post from December 2008. Consider the following a re-run for the 2009 season. *** Krampus, of course, is Santa’s evil twin, and travels with Santa to punish naughty boys and girls while [...] This doc is a couple of years old, but still well worth checking out. If there were a follow-up doc today who would the next ten women be? Off the top of my head I think you’d have to include Police Chief Jane Castor, new Creative Loafing publisher Marty Petty, local entrepreneur Jaden Hair, Betty [...] Betty Cracker thinks this painting is mockable (which it is), but it is also teh awwsuum. I want its sibling with Barack, Bill, Jimmy, Lyndon, Jack, Harry, Frank and Woody. I wonder if such a thing might exist. I came across the following passage while reading this morning, and thought it nicely captured how the war on terror and the “culture wars” are confluent. Feminism, in its meaning of women being accorded equal citizenship rights with men (i.e. able to own property, vote, hold office, work, chose their own healthcare, dress as they [...] I spent the morning reading Frédéric Bastiat’s “The Law,” (it is the concluding essay in a collection you can find here titled Essays on Political Economy). I dig 19th-century essays about political economy as much as the next policy geek, but reading this essay made me super sad. Bastiat, apparently, is part of the intellectual arsenal of [...] |
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