How many shows have reached such outstanding heights in the 5th season as Mad Men has done this year, episode after episode? The last 3 episodes especially have been just fantastic. And the comedic writing is so much higher this year. I find myself laughing...
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A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in.
I'm really glad that Agenda 21, the United Nations guidelines on sustainable development, is becoming an issue in the Virginia Senate race. That's not because some lunatics are talking about.
There's a lot of weird wildlife management going on in the Pacific Northwest. First, you have the killing of barred owls in order to save spotted owls. The barred owls have naturally migrated to the Northwest where they alternatively mate with and/or kill their smaller...
If the Times really wants to alienate everyone who doesn't identify as an east coast sophisticate, Edward Rothstein provides a good starting point: An East Coast visitor’s first reaction, provincially.
As we cut down our last tropical forests, decimating the lungs of the planet, at least a few people are bravely trying to stop it. In Brazil those activists are.
Your 31 pro-rape Republicans: John Barrasso WY Roy Blunt MO John Boozman AR Richard M. Burr NC Saxby Chambliss GA Tom Coburn OK Thad Cochran MS John Cornyn TX Jim DeMint SC Michael B. Enzi WY Lindsey Graham SC Charles E. Grassley IA Orrin G....
And the Obama Administration caves on the child labor rule for farmers I discussed here.
This is how conservatives see environmentalists: There is so much about this that is remarkable. On a personal level, I love that the spotted owl still drives conservatives nuts 20.
Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, has died. One of the most influential books of the environmental movement, Ecotopia tells the story of a secessionist Northwest that has committed itself to living sustainability. I must admit, I rather strongly dislike the book. Published in 1975, the...
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for everyone's favorite game--"Which Republican Governor is the Biggest Asshat?" I'm your host, Erik Loomis, and today, we are going to tour the nation visiting.
Jamelle Bouie: Gerson says that the terms of the debate this fall will be between “Reform Conservatism” and “Obama’s surprisingly unreconstructed liberalism.” Now is not the place to define Obama’s.