Estamos Unidos Con McCain
While idly perusing Wonkette I saw a front page from Arizona senatorial candidate John McCain’s Spanish language website. Que feliz, amigos, I thought, sing Kumbaya. I clicked on the link and there was the English site, headlining border security. What happened to the famous Spanish site, that was all the rage in 2008? Where is [...]
Hold Your Fire!
Arizona Iced Tea Shows Its Papers! Don’t blame it for Arizona politics or boycott it unjustly. It’s made in New York. And the ice tea moguls may be wondering if they should have named it ‘New York Iced Tea’. Kind of sophisticated, experienced but not jaded, always on the edge of the next trend. In [...]
Spring RICLAPP Fundraiser at Twist in Warwick
The Rhode Island Center for Law and Public Policy (of which I am a board member) will be having a fundraiser next week. Details: Spring Into Action! Thursday May 6th Twist Restaurant 336 Bald Hill Road Warwick, RI 02886 5:00 – 7:30 pm Tickets: $20.00 Tickets Can Be Purchased at the Door ***Bring a Friend [...]
Bishop Tobin is Scandalized
By health care reform. I don’t know what to say. I once had a co-worker who, when I asked her about Catholic things that didn’t make sense to me said, ‘It’s a mystery.’ So the Bishop’s sense of scandal is beyond my understanding, especially since anyone who spends any time at all talking to the [...]
30 Years On
Teacher Ken from Daily Kos has a post on the 30th anniversary of the American exit from Vietnam. I can’t call it the end of the war, because the war spread horrifically across Southeast Asia and many Rhode Islanders are here because they are survivors of that atrocity. Other Rhode Islanders were drafted into service [...]
Cape Wind Approved
It’s a long way from shovel-ready, but the US has approved an offshore wind farm off Cape Cod. There’s no free lunch. Wind power is way better than ‘drill baby drill’. Few Rhode Islanders know that there was once a proposal to build a nuclear reactor in Charlestown. I’ll take a wind turbine any day. [...]
How to Eat Less Pesticides
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has two lists to help us eat less pesticides in fruits and vegetables — the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen. Dr. Andrew Weil makes the argument that reducing pesticides in our body tissue helps to reduce the risk of problems with your nervous system, your endocrine system, and other [...]
Back to the Moon
Well, actually watching Duncan Jones’ ‘Moon’ on cable. Fine screenplay from Nathan Parker, amazing acting from Sam Rockwell and himselves, as well as a fine performance by Kevin Spacey present in voice only. I’ll excuse the lack of diversity just for this time since Sam Rockwell was the only actor on camera, except for Dominique [...]
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Remember Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room? The California energy corporation that stole and mismanaged piles of money, subjected California to rolling brownouts, laughed at the people they were robbing? Remember their poor brainwashed, fired employees whose retirement funds of Enron stock was only good to line the catbox? We hear Enron traders laughing [...]
Is Greed An Alien Concept?
According to British scientist Stephen Hawking, E.T. and his alien compadres are somewhere out there in the vastness of the universe and presumably possess the soul of an investment banker. If you thought complex derivatives and other financial weapons of mass destruction were scary, just wait until the aliens arrive to plunder the planet for [...]
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