What I learned about sitting down, a 2004 flashback
A friend shared this retrospective on the the Dean Scream, and asked me if it was like I remembered. More or less. I was living in Washington State then, and I went to Iowa to knock on doors and drive...
View Article"We write legislation, and they pass our ideas."
Wisconsin State Rep. Mark Pocan is attending the ALEC conference in New Orleans this year. He'd been on the ground in New Orleans only a few minutes when he overheard this:“Yah, I’m down in New Orleans...
View ArticleNot Nuclear, Again
I understand Dave Johnson's position that, given the scope of the climate disruption we're facing, we should throw everything we can at greening our energy production [link updated.] It makes sense...
View Article'It's a favor not to arrest you'
Many environmentalists and conservationists in the US have cheered the possibility of a deal in Copenhagen at the COP15 that would funnel money to the developing world to preserve forests and wildlife...
View ArticleHomework - Three Nice Things
Barack Obama was a good progressive when he was an organizer and state legislator in Illinois and has a good telecom policy. John Edwards has done a tremendous amount of work to highlight inequality...
View ArticleWhy I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton
That does it. The final, frakking straw.I have five main political interests, as things go; climate change, agriculture, women's rights, war and corporate power. All of the major presidential...
View ArticleExpanding Medicare
"Everybody knows the insurance companies make money by not providing care." - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Oct. 30, 2007 "[The Republicans] don't get that a family of four making $50,000 a year can't pay...
View ArticleClimate News Roundup
Again with the news about the eminent, catastrophic collapse of our human habitat ... unless we do something about it immediately. Is this an electoral issue? It could be, though it'd be nice if more...
View ArticleWorld Warming Warnings
Is it just me, or is does it seem like the temperature's setting in to get warmer, or like the weather all over the world is going crazy, while Congress' response has been tepid? Right. Just me, then....
View ArticleClimate: Consequences and Soil
Bill McKibben, who's run the Step It Up! efforts to draw attention to the climate crisis has urged people to support carbon emission reductions of 80% by 2050. That people are paying attention, that...
View ArticleDiversity and Mobility
Well, it looks like diversity is not only scary, it makes people unhappy. Erm, right.I wrote about what I think is a major hidden variable in the low social capital of modern, urban populations last...
View ArticleElitist Food
So, if you didn't know, I sold my car before moving to DC. The last time I drove was to the U-Haul place to drop off the truck. Parking is a nightmare here and it's expensive, too. I figured, hey, my...
View ArticleWill netroots assist in seppuku by Farm Bill? [Updated]
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again.... There is a tiny splinter...
View ArticleHouse Agriculture Committee Blocks Courts To Small Livestock Growers
Washington, D.C. - The House Agriculture Committee voted a little after 4pm ET to repeal a provision added to the 2007 Farm Bill by Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), chair of the Subcommittee on Livestock,...
View ArticleHouse 2007 Farm Bill Hearing, Day 1
Washington, D.C. - "A sound compromise that no one is satisfied with, but nevertheless represents real reform." - From Rep. Collin Peterson's (D-MN) opening statement today on the 2007 Farm Bill.The...
View ArticleFarm, Food and Biofuel Report
United StatesNote to would-be Farm Bill reformers everywhere: There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose constituencies include West African cotton farmers. There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose...
View ArticleCan We Outsource Immigration Lawyers, Too?
Go to the Programmer's Guild for more:Found here at Information Clearinghouse, where they provide this description: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in...
View ArticleLies The Economist Told Me
The Economist's latest issue, June 2nd-8th 2007, contains a 15-page special report on the business community's response to climate change. Other people may be more qualified than I to examine the...
View ArticleMy Life is Non-Negotiable To Me
In response to irishwitch's excellent diary about how OB-GYNs say that the Supreme Court was in the wrong, and in which she castigated anti-choice Democrats, someone predictably accused her of what's...
View ArticleMy Life With Domestic Terrorism
Be afraid. Be very afraid.That's what terrorists want. That's what they feed on. That's how they exert control and influence, how they wield their power.Once they've given you a reason to fear them,...
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