Not Just Part of a Cycle: Hurricane Records that Fell in 2005
Are we just in another phase of the usual hurricane cycle that was calm in the period 1900-1925, busy 1926-1960, then calm again until things started picking up in 1995? Jeff Masters at Weather...
View ArticleThe MSOC Story in WaPo is an Important Opportunity
People are paying attention, so now is the time to write in to the [expletive] media and explain who we really are. We don't read MSOC for the curse words, we read her because she is insightful as well...
View Article"Doubt is our product" -- The Global Warming Denial Industry
The Guardian today published excerpts from George Monbiot's important book Heat, which explores the global warming denial industry funded by ExxonMobil and others. Monbiot's film on this issue will be...
View ArticleGen. Odom Points to Impeachment
Raw Story is pointing to an amazing article by David Swanson at afterdowningstreet.org covering testimony by Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, US Army (Ret.) before the Sept. 26 Iraq Forum called by Rep. Lynn...
View ArticleCrucial, overlooked issue in Michigan -- Judges on ballot
Both Michigan's legislature and Supreme Court are in the hands of conservative Republicans. WE NEED PROGRESSIVES ON THE COURT. These races get very little coverage in the press, and the party...
View ArticleMisinfo to Poll Workers from MI Secretary of State
I just got an email from the person coordinating poll challengers for our area with the following warning:On November 1, 2006, the Secretary of State sent an Issue No. 40 of Election News to all...
View ArticleWhat's up in the State Houses? MI House has gone Dem.
As Kos pointed out long ago, one of the key things we need to do is rebuild the Democratic party on the state level. It looks like Michigan has made some progress on that score. We took back the state...
View ArticleAction: Save the EPA Libraries, Cont'd
This issue was diaried Friday evening, which is not the best time to contact officials. The Union of Concerned Scientists has a great summary of what is at stake, where things stand, and what we must...
View ArticleIf I'd Only Known!
Like many people with ADHD liberated women, I hate housework. Much of my childhood was spent hiding behind the couch reading the encyclopedia, hoping my mom wouln't notice that I hadn't cleaned my room...
View ArticleRecommend Jerome or I'll Shoot This Diary!
Please get Jerome a Paris' diary about the National Day of Climate Action TOMORROW onto the Recommended List. (That is, don't recommend this diary, just follow the link and recommend Jerome's.)We have...
View ArticleStupid Terrorist Trick at Glasgow Airport [Updated]
Update: I'm not trying to trivialize terrorism by pointing to the apparently amateur nature of these incidents. In fact, the amateurishness is a particularly disturbing sign. It was bad enough when a...
View ArticleRemember the State Courts
In the excitement of the presidential and congressional campaigns, it's easy to forget about elections to the state courts. It's crucially important to get name recognition for the right people,...
View ArticleReactor Running on Nuclear Waste by Early 2020s?
The March/April edition of MIT's Technology Review has an article on traveling-wave reactors, a new design for a nuclear reactor that only uses a small amount of highly enriched uranium, reducing the...
View ArticleNew Hope for a Carbon Tax?
British Columbia has one of the lowest corporate income tax rates (10%) in the Group of 8 wealthy nations, the lowest personal income tax rate in Canada on people making less than $119,000 a year, and...
View ArticleEarth Day: Climate Action!
During the last Ice Age the global average temperature was only about 5°C cooler than now. Since man began farming, the average temperature has stayed within a 1-2°C range. With a business-as-usual...
View ArticleWhy Net Neutrality? Because We Paid For It!
The central, indispensable role of the US government (and of the American taxpayer) in the development of computing and the internet is detailed in a book created by the National Research Council and...
View ArticleA Plea to President Biden: Address the Nation on Climate Change
In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression and a devastating bank panic, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation in his first “fireside chat”. In the radio broadcast, he used layman’s terms...
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