The very good news is that the solution to the garbage patch(es) is technologically feasible, straightforward, and cheap. Even better, it not only deals with the garbage patches, it also goes a long way to solving a plethora of environmental problems from climate change to deforestation. The very bad news is that we don’t want to do it. I refer of course to reducing consumption, radically.
The annual BBC worldwide poll started in 2005. Nearly 30,000 people were polled between November 2009 and February 2010 in 28 countries. The poll surveyed if people had a positive view or a negative view of a country without asking for a reason or justification for the answers collected by the pollsters. As in 2009, [...]
We know Rush Limbaugh is falsifying or mob-inciting, because his lips are moving, again. This obnoxious patent medicine salesman, a Reaganoid holdover from late 20th century America, certainly knows how to use reactionary language to perpetuate his income, promoting more free publicity because of the sheer lunacy of his fear-filled worldview of scarcity.
HBO’s new series “Treme” is a gritty cultural gumbo, a piquant celebration of post- Katrina New Orleans. The show, which airs Sundays at 10 pm ( with frequent re-airings) follows the travails of an eclectic ensemble three months after the hurricane’s devastating wrath left its mark on the Crescent City. A hard luck trombone player, [...]
The constitutional guarantees to all Americans are subverted when privilege is claimed by, or extended to, an exclusive group. Neither the joint resolution by congress in 1952 nor the subsequent 1988 proclamation by Ronald Reagan were constitutionally sound in either their intent or application. Judge Crabb’s decision effectively corrected a fifty eight year old error.
