Progressives are often nervous to talk about how global warming is impacting our weather. Climate science deniers have lots of theories that are hard to answer! My advice is to focus on what we know: Extremely warm ocean water is adding … [Read more...]
Archives for September 5, 2016
Where is the Boston Globe coverage of #NODAPL the Dakota Pipeline Protests? Anyway, join me in signing the #NODAPL Petition
There are thousands of people camped out, whole families, to protect their water and lands. It is a last stand by indigenous Americans. You would think, where the BBC has sent reporters across the ocean to cover this story as historic and … [Read more...]
labor & viruses
My first union card was with the Retail Clerks, now UFCW. I was inclined to being a union guy, a young smart-ass who never liked authority. My father came to organized labor later in life and became a bit of a hell-raiser who took over his … [Read more...]
I Miss the People’s Pledge
There's been much discussion here and elsewhere - and appropriately so - about the roughly $100,000 that Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) has dumped into Leland Cheung's effort to unseat Pat Jehlen in the state Senate. DFER's money … [Read more...]