We've all become familiar with the Repub/Fox routine of instantly responding to everything that happens while Obama is president (record snowfalls, children singing support of their president in school, American Idol inequities, etc.) as being his fault. If McCain...
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
~Emily Dickinson
I have a morbid fascination with death. Let's just get that out of the way early. I'm...
Human beings are incredibly adaptable which has been a boon but this is one of those times we shouldn't be simply acclimating to the destruction Climate Change is bringing, we need to become active in slowing it down and trying to reverse it.
It has been hailed as America's most sensible solution for breaking our dependency on foreign oil and reducing the potential environmental destruction oil drilling can cause, such as the ongoing catastrophe in the gulf.
It has been marketed and promoted...
We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock"
Ferrets are more determined than they are bright. Case in point being my own pet ferret, Rosie....
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President Obama is addressing the nation tonight from the Oval Office at 5:00 pm PDT, 8:00 pm EDT.
We will be adding the live video to this post as soon as the address begins, you can watch it here and...
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