implications of Court decision on GHGs and climate change
Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 08:52:02 PM PDT
As you've probably seen (if not: www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/washington/02cnd-scotus.html?hp ), on Monday the Supreme Court decided that carbon dioxide is a pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act. The media coverage so far has largely focused on the specific case at hand (relating to automobile mpg standards), but the decision will have enormous ramifications beyond cars.
Crying through Nightline - Famine in Niger
Tue Jul 26, 2005 at 09:11:45 PM PDT
Did anyone catch Nightline tonight? I have never seen more horrifying images ... I didn't expect to be so shocked, figuring that I was somewhat jaded, but I have never seen more disturbing pictures. Little babies, just skin and bones, and emaciated children with blood poisoning and sores all over.
NYT: Rove = Cooper's source; WaPo/LAT: Rove not = Cooper's source
Wed Jul 06, 2005 at 08:34:12 PM PDT
I read the story on the NYTimes website earlier tonight about Judith Miller going to jail, but just checked it out again, as it was updated at 10:49pm. Unless I missed this before (in which case, I'm sorry for posting old news), it appears that Rove is the source that released Cooper from his pledge of confidentiality.
Isn't this big news? Why is it buried on the second page of the story? By now, everyone knows Rove was mentioned in the emails, but this seems like additional confirmation of Rove's importance:
"Mr. Cooper's agreement to testify was limited to a single conversation with a single source." As I read that, and given the other info in the article (see jump), Cooper's only source was Rove. So doesn't that mean Cooper got the info about Plame from Rove? Does Rove's defense hang solely on a technicality (i.e., knowingly)?
Send Dept of Ed. your thoughts about Buster/PBS - easy to do!
Thu Jan 27, 2005 at 05:06:26 PM PDT
As many of you know, the new head of the Department of Education has pressured PBS to cancel an episode of a childrens' program that contains a family with two mothers.
You can complain directly to the Department of Education on their website.
They even have a nice pull-down menu that allows you to categorize your complaint as "discrimination".
Let's get rid of Larry Summers -- please help, Harvard alums!
Mon Jan 17, 2005 at 05:38:52 PM PDT
Larry Summers, brilliant economist and empirical thinker, apparently thinks that women don't acheive in math and the sciences because of innate biological differences.
