Environment
McCain’s extremely low high point
Friday, July 18th, 2008I feel a little guilty doing the whole “look at what shitty thing a prominent columnist wrote” thing at Netroots Nation when I could be going around doing cool stuff, but then again I also feel the compulsion to have new stuff up here if I bump into, like, Kos or someone and give him […]
In which Andrew Sullivan is less enraging than he is baffling
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Sully:
It’s odd that a movie that predicts ecological doom can in fact make one more certain that the human race will survive our current predicament. Any civilization that can produce something as technically and artistically sublime as Wall-E cannot be doomed.
Um …
I. Uh. What?
Somebody tell Ross Douthat and Matthew Yglesias to make sure their colleague […]
Chicken Soup and ANWR Drilling for the Soul
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008So apparently John McCain’s energy policy is now based around the “pyschological impact” of those studies instead of, you know, tangible results. Which I guess explains his support of the gas tax holiday.
Here are a few other planks in his energy strategy:
-Free Prozac for everyone.
-Hugs!
-Once a week, he will give a special address to the […]
More carrot, less stick
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Via Ze Frank comes the coolest thing I’ve heard all day. It’s called Carrotmob.
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
Here’s the site. Go check it out.
A Sound of Thunder
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Via Matthew Yglesias, an argument of such astonishing stupidity that merely reading it might make you forget how to control your bowels. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
According to James Hansen, the Paul Revere of global warming, the safe level for CO2 may be 350 ppm. Hansen is concerned that “ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and […]