Sunday, September 30, 2012
on almost any sunday morning
consumer financial protection bureau gets refunds from discover card for services fraudulently sold to customers
obama's lead among women is immense
jimmy carter had an 8 point lead over reagan before the debates? maybe not...
psycopaths have a poor sense of smell
obama's lead among women is immense
jimmy carter had an 8 point lead over reagan before the debates? maybe not...
psycopaths have a poor sense of smell
Saturday, September 29, 2012
happy blogiversary
no soup jobs for you
campbell's soup to close plants, lay off 700+:
campbell soup co. has been trying hard this year to turn itself around, with new soup flavors, higher prices, health-conscious acquisitions and more.
but now the camden, n.j. company, stuck with sliding profits and sinking interest in soup, is taking a more difficult route: shutting down two factories due to "excess capacity."
the sacramento plant, which makes soups, sauces and beverages, will close in phases before shuttering for good in july, the company said. as campbell’s oldest american facility -- it was built in 1947 -- the factory has the highest production costs in the company’s network.
about 700 full-time employees will lose their jobs, according to campbell. production will be redistributed to plants in maxton, n.c.; napoleon, ohio; and paris, texas.
campbell is also closing the doors at its south plainfield, n.j., spice plant. the factory will go dark by march, and 27 employees will be affected. spice work will be consolidated at a larger facility in milwaukee.
mmm, mmm, good, mmm, mmm, good, campbells soup is mmm, mmm, unemmmployed.but now the camden, n.j. company, stuck with sliding profits and sinking interest in soup, is taking a more difficult route: shutting down two factories due to "excess capacity."
the sacramento plant, which makes soups, sauces and beverages, will close in phases before shuttering for good in july, the company said. as campbell’s oldest american facility -- it was built in 1947 -- the factory has the highest production costs in the company’s network.
about 700 full-time employees will lose their jobs, according to campbell. production will be redistributed to plants in maxton, n.c.; napoleon, ohio; and paris, texas.
campbell is also closing the doors at its south plainfield, n.j., spice plant. the factory will go dark by march, and 27 employees will be affected. spice work will be consolidated at a larger facility in milwaukee.
saturday love
things that right wingers (inexplicably) hate
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxvi
b of a to lay off 16,000 workers. wanna bet no e of them are the execs who made bad mortgages?
is there a backlash against comedienne mindy kaling?
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxvi
b of a to lay off 16,000 workers. wanna bet no e of them are the execs who made bad mortgages?
is there a backlash against comedienne mindy kaling?
Friday, September 28, 2012
a few minutes on friday
ted koppel on why fox news is bad for america
why sneering at public servants comes so easily to many of america's richest citizens
cute alert! san diego zoo newborn elephant gets a name
and rest in peace, inspector clouseau's boss, brilliant character actor herbert lom
why sneering at public servants comes so easily to many of america's richest citizens
cute alert! san diego zoo newborn elephant gets a name
and rest in peace, inspector clouseau's boss, brilliant character actor herbert lom
we like what you've done with the place
we don't know where we've been lately, but the moderate voice has a great, sophisticated new look. good going, joe!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
like a summer thursday
bank of america steals from child actors
mitt romney's "them" problem
musician releases album that changes every time you listen to it
10 key charts about inequality
why misinformation sticks - and how to fix it
and rest in peace andy williams
mitt romney's "them" problem
musician releases album that changes every time you listen to it
10 key charts about inequality
why misinformation sticks - and how to fix it
and rest in peace andy williams
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
gangnam agnes de mille style
long wednesday
are libertarians stupid, or just really stupid?
the 14 most pornographic astronomical terms
group files suit against murray energy for making them attend romney rally
7 famous people who missed the titanic
the 14 most pornographic astronomical terms
group files suit against murray energy for making them attend romney rally
7 famous people who missed the titanic
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
say hello
tuesday night fever
is a ph.d. worth it?
german prosecutors name hewlett-packard in bibery case
wall st journal fails to disclose 9 writers are romney advisors
just what the world needs - colored pigeons! (see for yourself!)
german prosecutors name hewlett-packard in bibery case
wall st journal fails to disclose 9 writers are romney advisors
just what the world needs - colored pigeons! (see for yourself!)
Monday, September 24, 2012
willard wonders about windows
and why they won't open. airplane windows, mind you.
...“when you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. i don’t know why they don’t do that. it’s a real problem." - the political carnival
Labels: airplane, romney, things that make you go hmmmm
health insurance = emergency rooms
according to willard mittens romney.
“well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,” romney told interviewer scott pelley. “if someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and — and die. we pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital..." - mittens 2012but, he was against high cost emergency rooms as healthcare before he was for them.
“it doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility,” - mittens 2012
Labels: flip flip, healthcare, insurance, mitt, romney
What The Retired Guy Said...
austerity
it doesn't work, especially if the wrong people are being forced to abide by it.
it's not the average working person that is the problem....it's the banksters, the 1%, goldman sachs. where is their austerity?
it's not the average working person that is the problem....it's the banksters, the 1%, goldman sachs. where is their austerity?
recession-hit spaniards will this week be told to swallow yet more austerity as the government prepares a fresh round of reforms and another budget filled with spending cuts and tax increases that will allow it to seek a bailout from eurozone partners. - the guardian
Labels: austerity, banksters, goldman sachs, spain
monday night
mitt romney, class warrior
what's the fracking problem with natural gas?
mormon church wants to ex-communicate blogger critical of romney
germany celebrates 200 years of fairy tales with a 600 m brothers grimm forest walk
what's the fracking problem with natural gas?
mormon church wants to ex-communicate blogger critical of romney
germany celebrates 200 years of fairy tales with a 600 m brothers grimm forest walk
Sunday, September 23, 2012
environmental news stories sunday
a sneak peek at those stories you probably haven't heard about on the talking head shows.
criminal investigation at chevron refinery. - federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of chevron after discovering that the company detoured pollutants around monitoring equipment at its richmond refinery for four years and burned them off into the atmosphere, in possible violation of a federal court order - sfgate
senate votes to shield u.s. airlines from eu's carbon emissions plan. - the senate unanimously passed a bill on saturday that would shield u.s. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on european flights, pressuring the european union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers - reuters
arsenic in rice: pediatricians offer advice for parents. - new reports that rice products may contain "worrisome levels" of carcinogenic arsenic — especially from rice grown in certain states — have american pediatricians offering new advice for parents feeding children - chicago tribune
cleaning up oil spills with peanut butter, chocolate and whipped cream. the chemicals we pumped into the gulf to clean up the deepwater spill were almost as bad as the oil itself. after the next oil spill, we might be able to clean up with dessert - fast company
the dilbit disaster: inside the biggest oil spill you've never heard of, part 1. the july 2010 spill happened in marshall, a community of 7,400 in southwestern michigan. at least 1 million gallons of diluted bitumen - dilbit - blackened more than two miles of talmadge creek and almost 36 miles of the kalamazoo river, and oil is still showing up 23 months later - inside climate news
fire retardants in food. fire retardant chemicals are commonly found in household items like furniture and electronics. but a new study found them in a place you probably wouldn’t expect: food - living on earth
flame retardant chemical found in food. - a common flame retardant showed up in a variety of store-bought foods including meat, peanut butter and fish, researchers report today in the journal environmental health perspectives. the discovery of the chemical hbcd adds to growing evidence that our food supply is full of unwanted chemicals, including flame retardants. - discovery channel
how the world's oceans could be running out of fish. - global fish stocks are exploited or depleted to such an extent that without urgent measures we may be the last generation to catch food from the oceans - bbc
finding a remedy for burger smog. - sandwiched between paved-road dust and diesel truck emissions is the second-biggest producer of particle pollution in southern california: the char-broiled burger - riverside press enterprise
criminal investigation at chevron refinery. - federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of chevron after discovering that the company detoured pollutants around monitoring equipment at its richmond refinery for four years and burned them off into the atmosphere, in possible violation of a federal court order - sfgate
senate votes to shield u.s. airlines from eu's carbon emissions plan. - the senate unanimously passed a bill on saturday that would shield u.s. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on european flights, pressuring the european union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers - reuters
arsenic in rice: pediatricians offer advice for parents. - new reports that rice products may contain "worrisome levels" of carcinogenic arsenic — especially from rice grown in certain states — have american pediatricians offering new advice for parents feeding children - chicago tribune
cleaning up oil spills with peanut butter, chocolate and whipped cream. the chemicals we pumped into the gulf to clean up the deepwater spill were almost as bad as the oil itself. after the next oil spill, we might be able to clean up with dessert - fast company
the dilbit disaster: inside the biggest oil spill you've never heard of, part 1. the july 2010 spill happened in marshall, a community of 7,400 in southwestern michigan. at least 1 million gallons of diluted bitumen - dilbit - blackened more than two miles of talmadge creek and almost 36 miles of the kalamazoo river, and oil is still showing up 23 months later - inside climate news
fire retardants in food. fire retardant chemicals are commonly found in household items like furniture and electronics. but a new study found them in a place you probably wouldn’t expect: food - living on earth
flame retardant chemical found in food. - a common flame retardant showed up in a variety of store-bought foods including meat, peanut butter and fish, researchers report today in the journal environmental health perspectives. the discovery of the chemical hbcd adds to growing evidence that our food supply is full of unwanted chemicals, including flame retardants. - discovery channel
how the world's oceans could be running out of fish. - global fish stocks are exploited or depleted to such an extent that without urgent measures we may be the last generation to catch food from the oceans - bbc
finding a remedy for burger smog. - sandwiched between paved-road dust and diesel truck emissions is the second-biggest producer of particle pollution in southern california: the char-broiled burger - riverside press enterprise
Labels: carbon footprint, chemicals, chevron, climate change, e.u., environment, europe, fish, food safety, ocean, oil, pollution, senate, toxins
on a sunday
the tea party is less popular than atheists and muslims
pity the plutocrat's poor wife
life imitates breaking bad: chemistry teacher arrested for selling meth at school
and, speaking of breaking bad, scientists uncertain about heisenberg's incertainty principle
pity the plutocrat's poor wife
life imitates breaking bad: chemistry teacher arrested for selling meth at school
and, speaking of breaking bad, scientists uncertain about heisenberg's incertainty principle
willard mitt romney
flat wrong...and not sorry at all.
Labels: 1 percent, 47 percent, gop, mitt, romney
Saturday, September 22, 2012
romney reads ramos the riot act
by now, we all know that mitt romney packed the audience w/partisan cliques for his univision interview. but what we found interesting was the fact that the mittster threw a tantrum to get the introduction he wanted:
that wouldn't be the last demand from the campaign: romney himself almost pulled the plug on the whole thing minutes before the broadcast, [univision anchor maria elena] salinas said.
while introducing romney at the top of the broadcast, salinas's co-anchor, jorge ramos, noted that the republican candidate had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that obama had agreed to a full hour the next night. ramos then invited the audience to welcome romney to the stage — but the candidate didn't materialize.
"it was a very awkward moment, believe me," salinas said.
apparently, romney took issue with the anchors beginning the broadcast that way, said salinas, and he refused to go on stage until they re-taped the introduction. (one republican present at the taping said romney "threw a tantrum.")
"our president of news was talking to the romney campaign and negotiating it," salinas said. "but at that point, you can't really argue with that. the candidate is there, everyone is in their seats, the show must go on. there's a limit to how much we can object to it."
the compromise reached was that the anchors would note the discrepancy in the candidates' time commitments at the end of the broadcast. but salinas said, by then, the crowd was cheering so loudly that they drowned out the anchors' words.
this is the guy who wants to be president?
while introducing romney at the top of the broadcast, salinas's co-anchor, jorge ramos, noted that the republican candidate had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that obama had agreed to a full hour the next night. ramos then invited the audience to welcome romney to the stage — but the candidate didn't materialize.
"it was a very awkward moment, believe me," salinas said.
apparently, romney took issue with the anchors beginning the broadcast that way, said salinas, and he refused to go on stage until they re-taped the introduction. (one republican present at the taping said romney "threw a tantrum.")
"our president of news was talking to the romney campaign and negotiating it," salinas said. "but at that point, you can't really argue with that. the candidate is there, everyone is in their seats, the show must go on. there's a limit to how much we can object to it."
the compromise reached was that the anchors would note the discrepancy in the candidates' time commitments at the end of the broadcast. but salinas said, by then, the crowd was cheering so loudly that they drowned out the anchors' words.
saturday jump
expert predicts end of arctic sea ice in 4 years
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxv
the distress of the privileged
and on that subject, arrested developement fans should enjoy lucille and mitt
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxv
the distress of the privileged
and on that subject, arrested developement fans should enjoy lucille and mitt
Friday, September 21, 2012
More Random Notes
I recently declared chez Mannion that I would leave my wife for Jenny Diski. For anyone who needs to figure out why, start with this post where she puts the Glorification of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics into context. As Tom Lehrer sang in a similar context, “Though he may have won all the battles, we had all the good songs.”
(Not to mention this one, which hits rather close to home.)
I asked this on Twitter and never saw an answer. If Mitt Romney believes his approach “will put 23 million people back to work again,” why does he plan to create only 12 million jobs?
If the Boy Scouts made a moral decision earlier this year, what do you call the ones from the early 1970s?
In similar TANJ-is-a-feature-not-a-bug fashion, those who wonder why no one trusts the NYC police department when a car is involved are referred to this Forbes piece. What would you expect when your force is made up of a bunch of car-dependent, overprivileged parking Lon Gislanders and Joiseyites?
If anyone was foolish enough to believe that the need for “education reform” is driven by a desire to take monies from the public coffers and give them to friends and campaign contributors, Valerie Strauss clears up the question for Tennessee, having previously body-slammed the Rahming idiocy coming out of Chicago.*
Doug Henwood points out that buying stock is really not “investing capital,” which Matt Yglesias appears to have overlooked. (As a side note, my beach reading this summer was Matt’s dad’s fifth novel, which he dedicated to his two sons. It was that or my dog-eared copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I still think I made the right choice. At the price at the link, absolutely recommended. Indeed, you can get the hardcover for that same price, for a good cause. What more could you want?)
My application for press credentials to the Clinton Global Initiative—which I had covered for the last three years—was declined. Which is probably good, since I can afford neither the time nor the money to go this year and (as with you) I’ll be able to watch most of the presentations via the Internet. (Though one of my best pieces from last year came from a lunch meeting that was not broadcast. Ah, well, their loss.)
And, finally, bleg of the day:
I am now the proud owner of not one but two IBM ThinkPad T40s. All things considered, the only problem with these top-of-the-line-at-le-fin-de-siècle, half-gig of RAM, 40-and-that’s-really-rounding-up GB HD machines is that their wireless capability is 802.11b. How difficult is that going to be to upgrade?
*The three reasons to keep the WaPo alive are Strauss, Sarah Kliff (who blogs chez Ezra), and Michael Dirda, who I probably irritated the last time we were together by waving buyable copies of The Best of John Sladek in his face.
shuttle off to buffalo
actually, to los angeles international airport.
the space shuttle endeavor made its final flight today, taking off from edwards air force base in the mojave desert, flying up to sacremento, then over to the bay area, then down the coast for one final loop around southern california. skippy got to see it pass by mulholland drive.
pretty damn amazing.
the space shuttle endeavor made its final flight today, taking off from edwards air force base in the mojave desert, flying up to sacremento, then over to the bay area, then down the coast for one final loop around southern california. skippy got to see it pass by mulholland drive.
4 am friday - whatever it takes
here's a map of gas prices in the country
the black market goes green: theft of solar panels on the rise
also on the rise: lynchings of empty chairs
glengarry glen mitt
the black market goes green: theft of solar panels on the rise
also on the rise: lynchings of empty chairs
glengarry glen mitt
Thursday, September 20, 2012
lazy thursday
is romney tanking gop's hopes for a senate take-over?
9 scientific breakthroughs that happened totally by accident
bill moyers on the one percent supreme court
california tries to lead the way on health law
9 scientific breakthroughs that happened totally by accident
bill moyers on the one percent supreme court
california tries to lead the way on health law
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
this is excellent news for john mccain!
ed kilgore, writing over @ washington monthly, points out that, with the latest poll, mitt romney is probably holding his nose and saying "pew":
as opposed to mitt romney himself, who is an out-and-out liar.
it’s hardly the kind of definitive evidence we need to conclude mitt romney’s in the process of burying his presidential prospects, but there’s just no way for anyone to spin the new national pew research poll as anything other than really bad news for the gop nominee. taken from september 12-16 (in other words, before the boca moment video hit the airwaves), it shows barack obama opening up an 8-point lead among likely voters, while also topping 50%. if you want a real topline shocker: the same poll at this point in 2008 showed obama and mccain even at 46%. if there’s been a poll this year showing obama outperforming his 2008 numbers at any point whatsoever, i certainly don’t recall seeing it.
…
pew’s analysis is very lengthy, and i haven’t had a chance to read, much less absorb and write about, it all. but for the moment, i’ll leave you with pew’s opening summary:
but don't start popping the champagne corks just yet. as ed points out, this poll could be an outlier.…
pew’s analysis is very lengthy, and i haven’t had a chance to read, much less absorb and write about, it all. but for the moment, i’ll leave you with pew’s opening summary:
at this stage in the campaign, barack obama is in a strong position compared with past victorious presidential candidates. with an eight-point lead over mitt romney among likely voters, obama holds a bigger september lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in november, including obama four years ago. in elections since 1988, only bill clinton, in 1992 and 1996, entered the fall with a larger advantage.
as opposed to mitt romney himself, who is an out-and-out liar.
just wednesday
oddly enough, romney does better in robot polls
a breakdown of who the 47% are
the newset popemobile is electric
why not adopt a skull?
a breakdown of who the 47% are
the newset popemobile is electric
why not adopt a skull?
avast mateys - its international talk like a pirate day
Labels: flying spaghetti monster, pirates
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
tuesday morning
hey mr. romney: misconceptions and realities about who pays taxes
astronomers have found a real-universe version of dr. who's home planet, gallifrey
new study finds high-income tax cuts don't stimulate the economy
scammy scammers and the scams they pull
astronomers have found a real-universe version of dr. who's home planet, gallifrey
new study finds high-income tax cuts don't stimulate the economy
scammy scammers and the scams they pull
Monday, September 17, 2012
say hello
to the progressive news posts daily
go ahead, mr. romeny, tell us how you really feel
david corn, over @ mother jones, expounds about a secret video in which mitt romney, talking to a room of the 1 percenters, exposes his true feelings about half of america:
things just aren't going well for romney. on top of the mean girl politico piece, which gossips that his campaign is in tatters (she-dooby), romney is not going to win over any undecided voters who hear what he really thinks of them.
as brad de long puts it,
during a private fundraiser earlier this year, republican presidential candidate mitt romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support president barack obama. he dismissed these americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them. fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in november, romney replied:
apparently parts of this video have been floating around youtube for a few weeks, but david is the one that brought it into mainstream media.there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. all right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. that that's an entitlement. and the government should give it to them. and they will vote for this president no matter what…these are people who pay no income tax.
romney went on: "[m]y job is is not to worry about those people. i'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."things just aren't going well for romney. on top of the mean girl politico piece, which gossips that his campaign is in tatters (she-dooby), romney is not going to win over any undecided voters who hear what he really thinks of them.
as brad de long puts it,
note that if:
• you make $60,000
• you are married with three minor children
• you tithe 10% to the cjclds
• you pay $3000 in state and property taxes
• you spend $1000 in job expenses and tax preparation fees
• you have $5000 in child care expenses
then, according to romney, you are a moocher.
and, on a personal note, may we just say how good it feels to have the gop field a candidate whose campaigning skills make mike dukakis look like ronald reagan.
• you make $60,000
• you are married with three minor children
• you tithe 10% to the cjclds
• you pay $3000 in state and property taxes
• you spend $1000 in job expenses and tax preparation fees
• you have $5000 in child care expenses
then, according to romney, you are a moocher.
Random Notes, Again
If the new SAGgingAFTRA gets up in arms about this, maybe they will be worth paying dues. But that I heard about this from Patrick first isn't encouraging.
As a Rutgers-Newark alumnus—not to mention the father of two Jewish daughters—I find this sad, pathetic, and personally revoting. The most diverse campus in the United States, whose law school produced the next Senator from Massachusetts,* has some bad apples in it, too, apparently.
I'm not reading blogs much. Lawrence Norfolk has a new novel out. There is a direct relationship between those two statements. Highly recommended. But you would expect that, no?
*The other candidate, who attended only private college and law school, pretends he's the one who is "of the people." And I gave at the office.
As a Rutgers-Newark alumnus—not to mention the father of two Jewish daughters—I find this sad, pathetic, and personally revoting. The most diverse campus in the United States, whose law school produced the next Senator from Massachusetts,* has some bad apples in it, too, apparently.
I'm not reading blogs much. Lawrence Norfolk has a new novel out. There is a direct relationship between those two statements. Highly recommended. But you would expect that, no?
*The other candidate, who attended only private college and law school, pretends he's the one who is "of the people." And I gave at the office.
monday night
it's occupy wall street's one year anniversary
wal-mart workers expose truth about working there
a brief history of teachers' strikes in america
15 really strange movie credits
wal-mart workers expose truth about working there
a brief history of teachers' strikes in america
15 really strange movie credits
Sunday, September 16, 2012
environmental news stories sunday
for those pesky little stories that you probably didn't hear anything about on the talking head shows this morning....but should have...
home rule. school kids in colorado have to walk at least 1,000 feet from the playground to reach the nearest medical marijuana dispensary. but the closest oil and gas well need only be 350 feet away. and as the city of longmont recently discovered, the state does not play nice with city governments that introduce legislation to the contrary - high country news
japan finds another gap in its disaster readiness – mount fuji.- when toshitsugu fujii became head of a japanese task force on disaster response at mount fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight: japan had no plan in place to deal with a disaster in which an earthquake, such as the magnitude 9.0 tremor in 2011, sparks a volcanic eruption at the famous landmark - reuters
weather pushes allergy and asthma miseries to new level. -as one of the hottest summers ever recorded drew to a close, jay portnoy watched patients stream into children’s mercy hospital and clinics in kansas city, mo., coughing and wheezing with asthma, 20 admissions per day for the week that started with labor day, he said. - washington post
georgia officials give drought the silent treatment.- georgia's relentless experience with drought has created ambivalence among residents and policymakers about how to cope with it, hinting at problems other states may have to face if their droughts drag on or recur with troubling regularity - latimes
arctic sea ice vanishes – and the oil rigs move in.- this summer, the sea ice that caps the arctic ocean melted to the lowest level since at least 1979, when satellites first began keeping track of ice over the north pole. but the most immediate impact of climate change-related arctic ice melting will likely be the opening of vast new drilling territory for a thirsty oil industry - time magazine
annual report reveals list of contaminants in cumberland county water.- local drinking water quality reports, provided to cumberland county residents and businesses with an update on the safety of tap water, have revealed a list of contaminants that may give pause to some who get their h2o from faucets - carlisle sentinel
promise of the sea.- in the not-too-distant future, when some oregon residents plug their laptops into an electrical outlet they could be using juice generated by the fierce waves that roll shoreward along the pacific northwest coast - high country news
laissez-faire failing world’s dwindling water resources.- growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the u.n. security council, a panel of experts said in a new report - inter press service
japan plans to end reliance on nuclear power within 30 years.- japan has announced plans to end its reliance on nuclear power within 30 years, in a historic policy shift prompted by the triple meltdown at the fukushima power plant. - the guardian
why doesn't your city have curbside composting?- following san francisco's lead, nearly 100 cities now have curbside composting. keeping food scraps, leaves, tree limbs, and grass clippings out of the municipal waste facilities preserves limited space, and it saves money. why don't more cities and states make it easier for us to compost? the answer: big trash - mother jones
the bay area chevron explosion shows gaps in refinery safety.-chevron's 100-year-old plant has long been a source of contention in this industrial east bay city – and for good reason. it injects millions into the local economy, but it's also racked up dozens of air-quality violations in the last year alone, not to mention three serious fires in the last 12 years - high country news
backyard birders should check their bird seed.-earlier this month, scotts miracle-gro co. was sentenced in federal court in ohio to pay a $4million fine and do community service for spiking its bird seed with insecticides, according to the u.s. environmental protection agency - san gabriel valley tribune
farmers warned to watch for carcinogen as drought continues.- a fungus that produces a toxic carcinogen is flourishing in the continuing heat and drought baking corn crops across the midwest, purdue university researchers report. livestock eating infected corn risk health problems - daily climate
want the presidential debate moderators to ask about climate? then tweet them thishome rule. school kids in colorado have to walk at least 1,000 feet from the playground to reach the nearest medical marijuana dispensary. but the closest oil and gas well need only be 350 feet away. and as the city of longmont recently discovered, the state does not play nice with city governments that introduce legislation to the contrary - high country news
japan finds another gap in its disaster readiness – mount fuji.- when toshitsugu fujii became head of a japanese task force on disaster response at mount fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight: japan had no plan in place to deal with a disaster in which an earthquake, such as the magnitude 9.0 tremor in 2011, sparks a volcanic eruption at the famous landmark - reuters
weather pushes allergy and asthma miseries to new level. -as one of the hottest summers ever recorded drew to a close, jay portnoy watched patients stream into children’s mercy hospital and clinics in kansas city, mo., coughing and wheezing with asthma, 20 admissions per day for the week that started with labor day, he said. - washington post
georgia officials give drought the silent treatment.- georgia's relentless experience with drought has created ambivalence among residents and policymakers about how to cope with it, hinting at problems other states may have to face if their droughts drag on or recur with troubling regularity - latimes
arctic sea ice vanishes – and the oil rigs move in.- this summer, the sea ice that caps the arctic ocean melted to the lowest level since at least 1979, when satellites first began keeping track of ice over the north pole. but the most immediate impact of climate change-related arctic ice melting will likely be the opening of vast new drilling territory for a thirsty oil industry - time magazine
annual report reveals list of contaminants in cumberland county water.- local drinking water quality reports, provided to cumberland county residents and businesses with an update on the safety of tap water, have revealed a list of contaminants that may give pause to some who get their h2o from faucets - carlisle sentinel
promise of the sea.- in the not-too-distant future, when some oregon residents plug their laptops into an electrical outlet they could be using juice generated by the fierce waves that roll shoreward along the pacific northwest coast - high country news
laissez-faire failing world’s dwindling water resources.- growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the u.n. security council, a panel of experts said in a new report - inter press service
japan plans to end reliance on nuclear power within 30 years.- japan has announced plans to end its reliance on nuclear power within 30 years, in a historic policy shift prompted by the triple meltdown at the fukushima power plant. - the guardian
why doesn't your city have curbside composting?- following san francisco's lead, nearly 100 cities now have curbside composting. keeping food scraps, leaves, tree limbs, and grass clippings out of the municipal waste facilities preserves limited space, and it saves money. why don't more cities and states make it easier for us to compost? the answer: big trash - mother jones
the bay area chevron explosion shows gaps in refinery safety.-chevron's 100-year-old plant has long been a source of contention in this industrial east bay city – and for good reason. it injects millions into the local economy, but it's also racked up dozens of air-quality violations in the last year alone, not to mention three serious fires in the last 12 years - high country news
backyard birders should check their bird seed.-earlier this month, scotts miracle-gro co. was sentenced in federal court in ohio to pay a $4million fine and do community service for spiking its bird seed with insecticides, according to the u.s. environmental protection agency - san gabriel valley tribune
farmers warned to watch for carcinogen as drought continues.- a fungus that produces a toxic carcinogen is flourishing in the continuing heat and drought baking corn crops across the midwest, purdue university researchers report. livestock eating infected corn risk health problems - daily climate
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month of sundays
are all the racists on the right?
pharyngula knows this feeling well
florida's voter purge caught exactly one non-citizen voter (a canadian)
$30 million in maple syrup stolen from canada's strategic maple reserves
pharyngula knows this feeling well
florida's voter purge caught exactly one non-citizen voter (a canadian)
$30 million in maple syrup stolen from canada's strategic maple reserves
Saturday, September 15, 2012
saturday in the park (i think it was the 4th of july)
joe walsh is a misogynist asshole
how the republicans reinforce a campaign of lies
chronicling mitt's mendacity vol. xxxiv
10 bookstores that used to be something else
how the republicans reinforce a campaign of lies
chronicling mitt's mendacity vol. xxxiv
10 bookstores that used to be something else
Friday, September 14, 2012
thank god it's friday
how to tell if you're being religiously oppressed
can science be funny? the ig noble prize
5 atheists who should be more well-known
extreme trolling may be signs of mental illness
can science be funny? the ig noble prize
5 atheists who should be more well-known
extreme trolling may be signs of mental illness
Thursday, September 13, 2012
skippy's thursday night music club
in these days of really slippery people....
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
why erik loomis supports public school teachers (and you should, too!)
we can't say it any better than erik loomis did over @ lawyers, guns & money:
teaching is hard, and getting harder. even physically threatening. and severely underpaid and under-appreciated. so we agree w/erik on all counts:
and then there was a man named stuart perlmeter. i first ran into him in the 7th grade when he taught some classes at my middle school. this was around 1987. he was a weird guy, or so it seemed. he had big curly hair. his classroom was festooned with lyrics by some band none of us had ever heard of before called talking heads. and he was very into science. i have no idea why this man ended up in the springfield public school system. because he was kind of a famous guy in the science world.
mr. perlmeter used to tell us stories. he actually worked with dian fossey on gorillas. don’t believe me? he took the last of these pictures in this 1981 national geographic article.
once i started high school, he started teaching there. but he didn’t bother with the ap classes. he focused on the kids who weren’t much engaged in school, those at risk of dropping out. he started a program where they could go observe bats. he wrote about his experiences in popular and academic journals. this came out the year after i graduated. i remember some of the kids in these pictures. for all this work, mr. perlmeter won oregon’s school teacher of the year award in 1990.
certainly not every school had a guy like this. but we also had all of these teachers who taught kids who were underprepared, dealing with unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence at home; who had no family expectations that they would amount to anything. and these teachers, underpaid no doubt, persevered and tried to teach these kids. sure, 20% of them may have been terrible. are 20% of administrators not terrible? 20% of political pundits? mediocrity is part of the world. but the majority of teachers ranged from good-hearted people to superheroes.
for skippy, there were thankfully too many wonderful teachers to remember here. there was miss bennett, the wry, sarcastic high school science teacher who imparted her love of the mysteries of the physical world to us kids. there was mr. hammond, gruff exterior, with a heart of gold and a brilliant mind that could make adolescent brains excited about geometry. there was mr. barnes, the clarinet-playing band teacher who grew up on chicago's southside, and who taught us kids the wonders of jazz in band practice. there was crazy sonja pohlman, the erudite redhead who got stuck with the privelege of teaching advanced literature to the misfits in high school, and showed us that learning was more than memorizing; it was imagination, it was critical thinking, it was acting out scenes from dostoyevski and trips to the mall to simply watch real people interact.mr. perlmeter used to tell us stories. he actually worked with dian fossey on gorillas. don’t believe me? he took the last of these pictures in this 1981 national geographic article.
once i started high school, he started teaching there. but he didn’t bother with the ap classes. he focused on the kids who weren’t much engaged in school, those at risk of dropping out. he started a program where they could go observe bats. he wrote about his experiences in popular and academic journals. this came out the year after i graduated. i remember some of the kids in these pictures. for all this work, mr. perlmeter won oregon’s school teacher of the year award in 1990.
certainly not every school had a guy like this. but we also had all of these teachers who taught kids who were underprepared, dealing with unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence at home; who had no family expectations that they would amount to anything. and these teachers, underpaid no doubt, persevered and tried to teach these kids. sure, 20% of them may have been terrible. are 20% of administrators not terrible? 20% of political pundits? mediocrity is part of the world. but the majority of teachers ranged from good-hearted people to superheroes.
teaching is hard, and getting harder. even physically threatening. and severely underpaid and under-appreciated. so we agree w/erik on all counts:
the chicago teachers union deserves everything they are asking for because many of them are heroes. for some, for kids like me, they are role models who give young people social mobility and who teach them that learning is a great thing. they know that standardized testing is worthless, that it bores everyone (as its early iterations bored me in high school), that they need to be allowed to teach and inspire. they deserve what they are asking for because they care more about young people’s future than anyone else in society, often more than the students’ own parents and certainly more than the education capitalists and liberal pundits who concern troll about these kids without having interacted with them. these teachers deserve what they are asking for because each and every day, many of them face confused, angry kids who have seen terrible things at home and can’t deal, who bring hateful words and knives and even guns into to the schools, because they face cursing and violence and horrible things on a daily basis, things rahm emanuel can’t even dream of.
the chicago teachers union deserves the world because they take kids like me out of working-class families and help them fulfill their dreams. those who attack them place themselves on the other side of the class divide, on the side that promotes social inequality and the side that provides no incentives for good teachers to stay in working-class schools since poor test scores, largely a result of poverty, will cost them their job. they claim to help children but don’t understand poor public schools; they claim to support policies that will improve education but promote ideas that will enrich capitalists at the expense of students.
and these pundits, these people who have never worried about money a single day in their lives, who were born with a silver foot in their mouth to quote ann richards, claim to support unions but never actually provide that support when working or middle-class people decide that enough is enough and walk off their jobs for the betterment of themselves, their families, and their community. and that makes me very, very angry. to quote campos from yesterday’s post on yglesias’ commentary, “look, either you support this strike or you don’t. if you don’t support it on the merits then come out and say so, and why. if you do support it, then say so, and why.”
indeed. you are either on the side of teachers or on the side of those who will crush their union. in the middle of the strike, there is no gray area. which side are you on? i side with the people who changed my life.
addendum: from commentor darkrose @ balloon juice:the chicago teachers union deserves the world because they take kids like me out of working-class families and help them fulfill their dreams. those who attack them place themselves on the other side of the class divide, on the side that promotes social inequality and the side that provides no incentives for good teachers to stay in working-class schools since poor test scores, largely a result of poverty, will cost them their job. they claim to help children but don’t understand poor public schools; they claim to support policies that will improve education but promote ideas that will enrich capitalists at the expense of students.
and these pundits, these people who have never worried about money a single day in their lives, who were born with a silver foot in their mouth to quote ann richards, claim to support unions but never actually provide that support when working or middle-class people decide that enough is enough and walk off their jobs for the betterment of themselves, their families, and their community. and that makes me very, very angry. to quote campos from yesterday’s post on yglesias’ commentary, “look, either you support this strike or you don’t. if you don’t support it on the merits then come out and say so, and why. if you do support it, then say so, and why.”
indeed. you are either on the side of teachers or on the side of those who will crush their union. in the middle of the strike, there is no gray area. which side are you on? i side with the people who changed my life.
if you want to support the chicago teachers from afar, here’s one way, from dave zirin:
it may seem like a small, kind of silly thing, but trust me, it means a lot.
there is no winning a game when the rules have been rigged, but there is power in numbers. there is power in struggle. and there is power in pizza. the easiest way to support chicago teachers is to order them a piping hot pizza pie. you can get food to the picket lines by calling gus or daisy at primo’s pizza at (312) 243-1052. when pizza shows up to the tired picketers, everyone’s spirits are lifted. it’s read to them from which part of the country a pie was ordered and it makes them feel that much less alone.
it may seem like a small, kind of silly thing, but trust me, it means a lot.
holy thursday
nypd secret squad set up for spying on muslims disbanded after finding zero cases
hard right is paranoid about the wrong things
w and romney: deja vu all over again
which president would win in a knife fight? (via)
hard right is paranoid about the wrong things
w and romney: deja vu all over again
which president would win in a knife fight? (via)
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
big apple pizza - update
from reader joel, we learn that:
you know what to do.
big apple pizza's yelp page has been deluged with five-star reviews, completely overwhelming the rightwing bad reviews, and driving the overall rating to a solid five stars.
so many people have contacted big apple to order pizza in solidarity that van duzer has begun asking them to contribute to his favorite charity, the van duzer foundation, which "[assists] families and individuals in st. lucie county florida, who are experiencing financial and personal hardship brought about by unforeseen crisis or tragedy.
you know what to do.
Labels: florida, good works, gop, pizza, right hypocrisy
thou shalt not smirk
when discussing the death of americans.
hunter over at the great orange one's puts it succinctly.
hunter over at the great orange one's puts it succinctly.
one does not smirk when discussing a horrific act. no matter how much you feel the act may benefit you personally, presuming you are the sort of monster that thinks such things, one does not smirk when discussing acts of murder and violence. even if you have the emotional capacity of a gnat, even if your own ambitions are so great that you cannot help it, one does not smirk
with his foot in his mouth, can he taste the bullet hole?
big wednesday
don't ask "are you better off now than 4 years ago," learn to ask the right questions
the complete guide to america's job crisis and the failure of bernanke's monetary policy using animated gifs
southern whites troubled by romney's wealth & religion
5 things to tweet and not to tweet
the complete guide to america's job crisis and the failure of bernanke's monetary policy using animated gifs
southern whites troubled by romney's wealth & religion
5 things to tweet and not to tweet
nmnmnmn
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
big apple pizza
and the right wing melt down over a bear hug. bearhug-gate. really. wtf.
not many things republicans say or do shock me. but yet these people, the party of 'business' are now not only attacking scott van duzer verbally, but have moved on to harassing his business. they have begun to attack his yelp.com Profile driving down his business review ratings - daily kos
“people are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” scott van duzer, 46, told politico - politicoare there democratic headquarters in the area? i think dems should call up and order some slices from big apple pizza for the volunteers.
Labels: gop, hate mongering, pizza
tuesday's heartbreak (9/11 edition)
bush ignored multiple warnings about 'imminate''dramatic' attack
first responders' cancer linked to 9/11
with the budgetary dispute resolved, construction on the national 9/11 museum will resume
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9/11
and the reminder of the ineptitude of a certain administration.
the direct warnings to mr. bush about the possibility of a qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001.. - nytimes
Monday, September 10, 2012
an ounce of bounce is worth a ton of won
nate cohn @ the new republic makes a compelling case that obama's post-convention rise in the polls is a little more decisive than just a bounce:
if we were mitt, we'd be worried.
in contests involving an incumbent president, the candidate with a higher share of the vote following his convention in gallup polling has won every election since 1964. we can go further: no modern candidate has won the presidency without taking a lead after his own convention. and there is a strong relationship between the incumbent’s share of the vote and their eventual finish in november.* to take a recent example, bush peaked at 50.4 percent in the realclearpolitics average after the rnc, and eventually won 50.7 percent of the vote. and it’s worth noting the largest errors involved races with incumbents who took the presidency due to assassination or impeachment (ford, johnson), and a year in which the polls systematically advantaged the incumbent (1996).
as nate silver (two nates, no waiting) extolls, it's too early to make that much out of this bounce. but nate (the first nate, the new republic nate) makes a compelling case.
if we were mitt, we'd be worried.
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the history of men redefining rape
the gop fact vaccum
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the history of men redefining rape
the gop fact vaccum
arctic tipping point: a north pole without ice
Sunday, September 09, 2012
no beer on sunday
a vast right wing conspiracy of stupidity
atheism plus: the new atheists
10 things the gop platform hates about you
81 parodies of the sgt. pepper album cover
atheism plus: the new atheists
10 things the gop platform hates about you
81 parodies of the sgt. pepper album cover
Saturday, September 08, 2012
down the penrose lane
saturday gigs
5 charts that show the deterioration of the middle class
boston takes aim at stormwater pollution
toxic chemicals linked to asthma & birth defects found in "back to school" supplies
chronicling mitt's mendacity vol. xxxiii
and a big happy birthday to our own cookie jill!
boston takes aim at stormwater pollution
toxic chemicals linked to asthma & birth defects found in "back to school" supplies
chronicling mitt's mendacity vol. xxxiii
and a big happy birthday to our own cookie jill!
Friday, September 07, 2012
best. rant. evah.
chris kluwe. love this guy.
baltimore ravens linebacker brendon ayanbadejo has spoken out in favor of a maryland ballot initiative that would legalize gay marriage. yahoo has published a letter that maryland state delegate emmett c. burns jr. wrote last week to ravens owner steve bisciotti, urging him to "inhibit such expressions from your employee." this is minnesota vikings punter chris kluwe's response to burns.
.....i can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. they won't come into your house and steal your children. they won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. they won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like social security benefits, child care tax credits, family and medical leave to take care of loved ones, and cobra healthcare for spouses and children. you know what having these rights will make gays? full-fledged american citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you? - deadspin
Labels: bigotry, civil rights, football, gay/lesbian
sumter county friday night
bill clinton's top ten ad libs in his dnc speech
interview with lapsed christian virgin shows why purity messages are so messed up
muddling the medicare issue
dog shaming
interview with lapsed christian virgin shows why purity messages are so messed up
muddling the medicare issue
dog shaming
Thursday, September 06, 2012
skippy's thursday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
gray thursdays
38 companies have cut ties with alec
sign the petition to ask cnn to fire misogynist twerp erick erickson
do some chimpanzees have a secret handshake?
use the forks, luke: a 500 pound, life-size, standing darth vader cake
sign the petition to ask cnn to fire misogynist twerp erick erickson
do some chimpanzees have a secret handshake?
use the forks, luke: a 500 pound, life-size, standing darth vader cake
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
skippy's wednesday night music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, u2, youtube
april, spring, summer and wednesday
ryan louis cooper wonders if professional blogging might lead to plagiarism
and the nytimes wonders when lying became so prevalent. uh, pot? meet kettle...
alcohol is a bigger gateway drug than marijuana
and here's the original paul ryan marathon running time calculator
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
skippy's tuesday night music club
Labels: democrats, obama, skippy's music club, youtube
tuesday's gone
lots of romney supporters don't think he can win
the story of canned laughter
gay student goes undercover to the national organization for marriage conference on families
anti-gay pastor convicted of public masturbation
and rip green mile actor michael clarke duncan
the story of canned laughter
gay student goes undercover to the national organization for marriage conference on families
anti-gay pastor convicted of public masturbation
and rip green mile actor michael clarke duncan
Monday, September 03, 2012
working class hero (happy labor day!)
mitt romney is the guy who fired you
what is riskier than living poor in america?
clint eastwood gets cut from rnc video
bill moyers: invisible americans get the silent treatment
what is riskier than living poor in america?
clint eastwood gets cut from rnc video
bill moyers: invisible americans get the silent treatment
Sunday, September 02, 2012
never on a sunday
anonymous billionaires are stealing your election
constitution expert: tea partiers are getting the constitution wrong
wife of wis. gop legislator & photo id advocate committed voter fraud
some gop were worried thathologram reagan would upstage romney's convention speech
and rip burt bacharach's long-time songwriting partner,hal david
constitution expert: tea partiers are getting the constitution wrong
wife of wis. gop legislator & photo id advocate committed voter fraud
some gop were worried thathologram reagan would upstage romney's convention speech
and rip burt bacharach's long-time songwriting partner,hal david
Saturday, September 01, 2012
saturday evening
draining the medicare pool
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxii
smart women marry rich: big blue eyes or big green bankroll?
if you're in tanzania, stop by for the annual goat races
chronicling mitt's mendacity, vol. xxxii
smart women marry rich: big blue eyes or big green bankroll?
if you're in tanzania, stop by for the annual goat races
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