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    Earth Day 2009

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    Road Trip to Olympia to Save the Planet

    Since Missy has been very busy blogging on all things national and Obama-related, I thought I’d spend a minute on a state thing.

    Environmental Lobby Day

    Here’s the scoop on this year’s 2009 Environmental Priorities Lobby Day. It’s always a good time. You should go. I usually do. And I will go again this year. [...]



    Why am I such a hater?

    So, late in the afternoon of the inauguration, I called a very close female relative whom I love dearly despite her sometimes insane political views [ie she thought Sarah Palin was "perky"]. “Just wanted to see how you were doing,” I said, waiting for her to bring up the inauguration.

    She skirted the issue as long as she could, then said, “I took a [...]



    a chunk of ice the size of manhattan is hard to deny

    But then maybe it’s just god’s will:

    OTTAWA (AFP) — Two ice shelves in Canada’s far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change.

    The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and is now adrift, while [...]



    Snakes in Suits

    Review of Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare

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    Regan Books, N.Y. 2006

    A Review by
    Omahkohkiaayo i’poyi

    I cannot recommend enough, to enough people, the book “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert Hare. These authors, both highly qualified on the subject of psychopathy, walk us through, and so richly illustrate, not only with [...]



    those who fail to learn from history…

    are condemned to 20/20 hindsight.

    From the WaPo today:

    As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college professor and City Council member, kept asking himself the same question: “What is going on?”

    Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn’t really all [...]



    Egomania and the Near Death of Grace

    Image by jurvetson via Flickr

    Frank Rich of the NYT, in his article about the historic nature of Obama’s ascendency to the Democratic Party nomination this week, points out that Obama is a new kind of politician in at least one subtle but extremely important way:

    Mrs. Clinton referred to herself by the first-person pronoun 64 times in her speech, and Mr. McCain did so 60 [...]



    Humane Society Lowers Fee for Cats and Kitties

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    From KPTV:

    The Humane Society said it has decided to combat the feline overabundance by lowering the cost to adopt kittens and cats.Whereas it normally costs $80 to take home a kitten it has now been reduced to $50, and adoption fees for cats have been reduced from $50 to $15. For those who take home two cats, the second costs $10.All cats [...]

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