Citizens United v. FEC, the anti-Hillary ad case. – By Richard L. Hasen – Slate Magazine
The Supreme Court Gets Ready To Turn on the Corporate Fundraising Spigot
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Diesel vs. Hybrid vs. Gas: Who Wins?
Green Wash: How Do I Save Fuel The Smart Way?
Regardless of whether you’re talking politics or automotive technologies, the voting and driving public often gravitates to what’s new and fresh. This herd mentality suggests that there’s hope in what’s new simply because it’s new. Focusing on automotive technology, the green trend AOL Autos identified at the recent 2009 Detroit Auto Show seems to be pushing buyers into two camps: diesel or hybrid.But we’ll let you in on a secret: The traditional four-stroke internal combustion engine isn’t dead, nor is it irrelevant to the green movement. Not by a long shot. …
Betraying the Planet
Op-Ed Columnist – Betraying the Planet – NYTimes.com
Indeed, if there was a defining moment in Friday’s debate, it was the declaration by Representative Paul Broun of Georgia that climate change is nothing but a “hoax” that has been “perpetrated out of the scientific community.” I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists. After all, to believe that global warming is a hoax you have to believe in a vast cabal consisting of thousands of scientists — a cabal so powerful that it has managed to create false records on everything from global temperatures to Arctic sea ice.Yet Mr. Broun’s declaration was met with applause.
Why doesn’t anyone have the cojones to mention the religious nuts who think it’s their duty to hustle Armageddon along? We just got rid of some of them, but there are a bunch of others who are still entrenched in both houses of Congress — especially the House. Yet no one mentions them.
Crying foul on Martina Navratilova | Salon Life
Crying foul on Martina Navratilova | Salon Life
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Click it or ticket begins Tuesday in Florida
Click it or ticket begins Tuesday in Florida | Jacksonville.com
Beginning Tuesday, not wearing a seat belt can cost you about $100 under a new Florida law that changes enforcement of the state’s law. Officers now can stop people for not wearing a seat belt. Before, motorists could only be cited if they were stopped for another violation.
Data suggest more moving out of Fla. – Local – Bradenton.com
Once the dream of many a retiree and young person seeking to live in paradise, the prospect of living in Florida seems to be less attractive in the current economic downturn.Data from moving companies and the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles suggest that fewer people are moving to the state and, at the very least, an equal number of residents are moving out.
Everglades pollution: How much of it is Orlando’s sludge? — OrlandoSentinel.com
The foul waters of Lake Okeechobee, the failing health of the Everglades and even sick dolphins along the South Florida coast might seem like troubles so distant they could hardly be the Orlando area’s responsibility.Yet a Florida law — which environmentalists say is being thwarted by state officials — says otherwise, banning a decades-old practice set in motion when a toilet is flushed or a kitchen sink is drained in Central Florida.
Orthorexics Take Healthy Eating to the Extreme
Obsessed with Health : Orthorexics Take Healthy Eating to the Extreme (By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis)
In a country where 34% of the population is obese, where 2,500 people die every day of heart disease and more than half a million perish of cancer each year, cultivating an unhealthy focus on healthy eating seems impossible. Yet some are so fixated on purifying their bodies that they make themselves sick in the process. It’s a condition known as orthorexia nervosa.
Lilies
M’ brother takes pictures, too…
Human, Being
I get a notice from Google Calendar in my Gmail every morning. Most of the time, it tells me that I have no events scheduled for the day, apart from the odd subscription or Internet charge coming due. What a relief that is: You have no events scheduled today! Continue reading
“A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill”
A Whirl-Blast from behind the hill
Rushed o’er the wood with startling sound;
Then–all at once the air was still,
And showers of hailstones pattered round.
Where leafless oaks towered high above,
I sat within an undergrove
Of tallest hollies, tall and green;
A fairer bower was never seen.
From year to year the spacious floor
With withered leaves is covered o’er,
And all the year the bower is green.
But see! where’er the hailstones drop
The withered leaves all skip and hop;
There’s not a breeze–no breath of air–
Yet here, and there, and everywhere
Along the floor, beneath the shade
By those embowering hollies made,
The leaves in myriads jump and spring,
As if with pipes and music rare
Some Robin Good-fellow were there,
And all those leaves, in festive glee,
Were dancing to the minstrelsy.
William Wordsworth
