Thanks to Kate for her post on how to personally take action to minimize your carbon footprint. All of these are great suggestions; apparently eating something other than meat is one of the biggest ways to decrease your personal … [Read more...]
Archives for April 22, 2012
Plebiscite Fixes Languish
A lot of vigorous, alarming huffing and puffing comes from the bad guys on civil-right issues. In the half of the states that allow ballot referenda or initiative petitions, the wolves try to blow away the protections for groups of the … [Read more...]
Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 4/20/12
[Cross-posted from the ProgressMass blog. Like ProgressMass on Facebook and follow on Twitter.] Welcome to the “Weekly Scott Brown-d Up.” Last week wasn’t an especially good week for our Republican junior Senator, Scott Brown. This … [Read more...]
Mr. Fiscal Responsibility
Remember how Newt Gingrich so reverently and so often spoke about the need to be a good steward of the public's money? Odd but the principle of fiscal sanity doesn't seem to apply to Mr. Gingrich himself. Of late it's come to the fore that … [Read more...]
Earth Day- Spend some time today thinking about reducing your impact
Today is Earth Day. Since it will be raining for most of the day, consider taking some time to reuse and recycle. Many people don't realize that you can leave old towels, sheets and just about any kind of fabric in the various collection … [Read more...]