“Which Infant Formulas Contain Secret Toxic Chemicals?”
” … even though artificial human milk is regulated by the FDA, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found last year that a thyroid-affecting chemical used in rocket fuel contaminates 15 brands of powdered infant formula, including two that accounted for 87 percent of market share in 2000. The CDC study omits the names [...]
Carpe Awesome Diem
What’s happening to language?
It’s changing, of course.
We had breakfast a couple of days ago in one of our fine local restaurants.
The young waitress asked us what we’d like to drink, and when I said “water,” she said “awesome!”
It’s interesting how such reflexive overuse of words eventually empties them of meaning. Try saying “soul” a hundred [...]
Every Degree of Warming Destroys 10% of Global Food Production
The consequences of global climate change are so varied and so dire that it’s almost impossible to find a suitable headline to convey the news.
The headline above was chosen at random from among many such comments in this Laura Flanders interview with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong and Gwynne Dyer, author of Climate Wars.
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“Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?”
David Sirota, in his article, “Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?,” knocks down one of the foundations of the conservative canon since Reagan, that now-discredited notion that tax cuts stimulate economic growth:
As the planet’s economy keeps stumbling, the phrase “worst recession since the Great Depression” has become the new “global war on terror” – [...]
Tsk Tsk, The Rich Are the Biggest Mortgage Defaulters
Perhaps there is a “moral hazard” in merely being rich. The economic history of the United States for the last several decades seems to suggest that conclusion. During this period the U.S. has become the most unequal society among Western industrialized nations, largely due to disproportionate tax breaks for the wealthy, and the middle class [...]
NCTV’s Anti-AGW Content Surprised Me Today
I was surprised today to catch the tail-end of a short video on NCTV expressing the fringe view that global warming is not caused by humans. The video also promoted a book called “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years,” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery.
The video, featuring a talk by Avery, is not [...]
GOP Trying to Make Economy Worse Before November?
Dean Baker, one of the few economists who correctly predicted the collapse of the housing bubble, makes a plausible case in this Guardian article for the idea that Republicans, by opposing the extension of unemployment benefits, are hoping to make the economy worse in time for the November midterm elections.
Republicans: A Party of Unemployment
It may [...]
What Nevada County Could Do With A Regional High-Speed Network
If you doubt the value of a local high-speed fiber-optic network, consider what the people of Ten Sleep, Wyoming (population 300) have done with theirs:
New global outsourcing hub — Wyoming?
When it comes to call centers filled with English-speaking employees, India likely comes to mind. Not a tiny town in Wyoming called Ten Sleep, population about [...]
July 4th Remembrance: The Courage of the Founders
The following is a portion of the transcript of Thom Hartmann talking about the Founders on his radio program, on election day, November 7, 2006:
“A dozen of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were politicians, doctors or ministers. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers. Ben Franklin was hard to define. I always called [...]
Radio Renaissance: Introduction
I’ve been wondering for the last year or so how I might write an article, or series of articles, on what I call the “Radio Renaissance.”
The Radio Renaissance is an explosion of podcasts representing a practically infinite variety of forms: music, university lectures, humor, talk radio, CSPAN broadcasts, archival re-broadcasts of vintage radio, books on [...]
