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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

pie in the sky

someone just tried to pie rupert murdoch @ the news of the world hearings in parliment in london
posted by skippy at 8:56 AM | 2 comments

tuesday afternoon

rupert murdoch and julian assange: compare and contrast

meanwhile, newscorp stocks plummet

al sharton to replace cenk uygur on msnbc?

and over @ pushing rope, they are ranting against "the middle"
posted by skippy at 3:37 AM | 0 comments

Monday, July 18, 2011

Back Into Baseball...

A funny thing happened last week while I was on vacation: I became a Washington Nationals fan.

And for the record, this was after I decided it was time to stop drinking beer. In case anyone was wondering. (That, and I'm holding up rather well -- no shakes, no nerve pain, no anxiety attacks, no hallucinations, and no cravings. The hard part is getting sufficient sleep, but I used to work 12-hour nights for years, so that's nothing new.) I just decided to start following baseball again.

But why the Nationals, of all teams?

Well, first of all, I was born and raised (for the most part) in Massachusetts. So I grew up watching the Red Sox. They're number one in my book, and they always will be. Trouble is, I live in Virginia nowadays, and I can't just hop a train to Fenway Park whenever I please. Nationals Park, on the other hand, is only a little more than two hours away -- I might be able to catch a game or two there before the season ends. That's the closest team to me. That, and I figured it couldn't hurt to have a favorite NL team on the side -- especially one in the same division as the Mets, and I hate the Mets more than I hate the Yankees. (Think 1986 World Series. F&#k the Yankees -- I want a rematch.)

And besides, now's the time to start rooting for a team like the Nationals. They're relatively new to the majors, and they aren't all that fantastic right now, but you don't know, seven or eight years down the road, they may have a championship caliber team. Maybe I'll get to watch them grow into one. (Of course, if they wind up in a World Series against the Red Sox, I'm siding with the Sox. Any other AL team, and I'm with the Nats.)

And if I don't make it to DC this year, well, Richmond has a Double-A team affiliated with the Giants now: the Flying Squirrels. Yes, that's what they call themselves. But they have a slightly better record than the Nationals right now, so... which team is laughing at which?

I guess I have three teams now. And a lot of catching up to do on the game...


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posted by Jim Yeager at 8:45 PM | 1 comments

stormy monday

folks that don't speak yiddish shouldn't speak yiddish

joe scarborough ventures into reality: "this is george w. bush's debt"

outside of iowa, romney beats bachman by substantial margins

head of scotland yard resigns, implicates prime minister in murdoch hacking scandal
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

environmental news stories sunday

for those big stories that never seem to grab the lead or headline above the fold.

somalia drought 'one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades.' - tens of thousands of people are fleeing drought and famine in somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in kenya and ethiopia - abc news

epa concerned about mountaintop removal link to birth defects. - federal environmental regulators are looking closely at a new scientific study that found appalachian residents who live near mountaintop removal mine sites face an increased risk of birth defects - charleston gazette

colorado's suburban homeowners face invasion of oil and gas wells. - cindy banfield and her neighbors in rinn valley ranch — a weld county development where homes sell for more than $400,000 — are learning what to expect when a drilling site becomes a neighbor - denver post

jon huntsman's enviro stance is up in air. - jon huntsman’s unorthodox presidential campaign is having a tough time dealing with his unconventional energy and environmental record - politico

seaweed in the fuel tank? - kelp and other seaweed could be biofuels of the future, avoiding competition with food crops for land and scarce freshwater resources – limitations that plague land-based biofuel prospects - discovery channel

wind farms enable state electric utilities to meet 2010 energy standard. - new wind farms built in wisconsin and neighboring states have enabled the state's electric utilities to comply with the first phase of the state's renewable energy standard, and most are well on their way to meeting the state's 2015 green energy target - milwaukee journal sentinel

missing nixon.
i miss richard nixon. mostly i miss nixon because when he wasn't wrapping himself in red, white and blue, he displayed a very nice shade of green. today, he would be drummed out of the republican party for high treason. do republicans really believe that clean water can be sacrificed for “economic development” without consequence? - gainesville sun

14 states suffering under drought. - the heat and the drought are so bad in the southwest corner of georgia that hogs can barely eat. corn, a lucrative crop with a notorious thirst, is burning up in fields. cotton plants are too weak to punch through soil so dry it might as well be pavement - nytimes

the bacon uprising. - the chinese middle class is eating more and more meat, and beijing wants to keep prices low. that means finding a way to feed all those pigs with grain imported from land cut from the brazilian rainforest, leading to conflict with allies. it's the first step in what could be an ever-escalating series of resource conflicts - fast company

state fracking rules could allow drilling near new york city water supply tunnels. - the latest draft of guidelines for hydraulic fracturing in new york could open the door to drilling within 1,000 feet of aging underground tunnels that carry water to new york city – a far cry from the seven-mile buffer once sought by city officials - propublica

great bee count aids scientists. - an untold number of volunteer bee counters like bové took part in the first great bee count saturday, helping to map the prevalence of the little pollinators across the United states and canada. - sfgate

rosanne's nuts about climate change. - "if people were to get their protein from nuts rather than beef, you see, there'd be no global warming, and there would also be enough grain to feed all the hungry people." - treehugger

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posted by Cookie Jill at 10:52 AM | 1 comments

the widening gap between the classes

goodby democracy...hello oligarchy. matt taibbi and david sirota have some must read posts.

taibbi...
if you think your local andy griffith is a greedy pig because he retired in his forties and built an addition to his garage with your tax money, try hanging out with a guy who eats $400 crabs, throws himself $5 million parties where he is serenaded by rod stewart and patti labelle (who sang "happy birthday"), and then compares the president to hitler when word leaks out that he might have to pay taxes at the same rate as a firefighter or a kindergarten teacher.

sirota...

in the midst of this prole-crushing economic emergency engineered by wealthy speculators and their political puppets, we now find ourselves watching those same modern-day marie antoinettes at once celebrating their station and begging for sympathy as if they were the real casualties of the decade-long economic slowdown they created.

...there was historian doris kearns goodwin suggesting those politicians who followed wall street and voted for the bank bailouts exemplified the same heroism as those who fought for the passage of the civil rights act in the 1960s.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 10:03 AM | 0 comments

pleasant valley sunday

yes, netflix raised its price by 60%...but remember when its ceo admitted he made an eye-popping salary?

even the majority of republicans think we need to raise taxes

hillary in2012?

the biblical definition of marriage

via balloon juice (of course), we find that it turns out that having pets really is good for you
posted by skippy at 4:52 AM | 0 comments