Conservative global warming deniers resort to fiction writer
[First Diary! This is from my blog...] Their arguments on environmental issues retreating like Greenland's glaciers, conservatives have turned to the realm of fiction-writing as refuge from the...
View ArticleGeorge Will and ANWR Deception: Creating a "Straw Person" in Lieu...
(Cross-posted at The Brudaimonia. Special thanks to Stevo's and Gallatin's diaries for reference.) Sometimes George Will will write or say something prudent, but other times he will come up with...
View ArticleSomething Better Happen This Time
In December of 2000, a questionable decision by the highest court in the land allowed George W. Bush to become President of the United States after losing both the popular and electoral votes....
View ArticleThe Discovery Institute Admits Its Bias in Dover Reaction
For a bit of schadenfreude I moseyed on over to the Discovery Institute's website to see their reaction to Judge John Jones III's decision that the Dover (PA) Area school district's decision to require...
View ArticleTed Stevens, Rest of AK Delegation Got Abramoff Money
From today's Anchorage Daily News (may need subscription):Alaska lawmakers got cash from AbramoffCORRUPTION CASE: Stevens has donated the contributions he received to charity. by Liz Ruskin, Anchorage...
View ArticleAK-Gov: Murkowski Hints at Running Again
At his State of the State address Tuesday night on the second day of the Alaska legislative session, Frank Murkowski, the nation's second most unpopular governor (we all know who's below him),...
View Article"The Age of the American car is passing into nostalgia"
(Cross-posted at The Brudaimonia.) From a telling article by Paul Harris of the Observer: The statistics tell a bleak story of economic disaster that has seen a whole corner of north-east America...
View ArticleIntroducing the Great Bear Rainforest
Here's some wonderful news from our neighbors to the north. As someone working in the environmental conservation field in Alaska (which technically makes British Columbia my neighbor to the south),...
View ArticleGeorge Monbiot on Flying and Global Warming
British writer George Monbiot is fast coming to be my newest journalistic hero, and this is after reading only a handful of his articles. His writing reinforces my belief that the best way to deal with...
View ArticleThe ANWR Battle and Alaskan Oil: Drilling, Spilling, and Pandering to Profiteers
The unfortunate reality of the oil extraction situation in Alaska has converged around three interrelated topics: ANWR, oil tax reform in the Alaska State Legislature, and an oil spill.
View ArticleLimbaugh's War on Peace
(Cross-posted on Someone Took In These Pants...) Amidst the nationwide nonviolent protests on the third anniversary of the War in Iraq, Rush Limbaugh has been doing his best to smear all those who are...
View ArticleMarch 22: World Water Day
(Note: Probably many Kossacks are aware of this day. I first heard about it tonight from Poetry Man's blog, and felt I should distribute it to the wider Kossack audience.)This diary is about a resource...
View ArticleThe HR 4437 Protest Thread
This diary is for listing all the demonstrations in the wave of citizen opposition to HR 4377. I've compiled an initial list; add others in the comments section. If you participated in one of the...
View ArticleANWR: PR Firm voted $3 million No-Bid Contract to Push Drilling
An Oregon-based PR firm, Pac/West Communications, has been slated to get a $3 million, no-bid contract by the state of Alaska to push for drilling in ANWR.
View ArticleANWR: $3 million for Pro-Drilling PR Campaign Added Back in AK Budget
In a previous diary I mentioned how the Alaska House of Representatives included $3 million in the state's supplemental budget bill for a no-bid contract to a PR firm to push ANWR drilling in the lower...
View ArticleTaxpayers will pay $1.2b for Superfund site pollution cleanup in '06: New...
There's a bumper sticker that says, "DO NOT FLUSH: Be like the mining industry and have someone else clean up your waste." Nowhere is this slogan better exemplified than the Superfund program. A new...
View ArticleMore Scientists Muffled by Bush Administration on Global Warming
(Cross-posted on Someone Took In These Pants...)It started when Dr. James Hansen, the lead scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, came out to news organizations to say that he was...
View ArticleChernobyl and the Uranium Age
(Cross-posted on Someone Took In These Pants...) The Chernobyl disaster happened twenty years ago this Wednesday.More than 200 times as much radioactivity was released as by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
View ArticleGoing Nowhere in Alaska: A Rant
(Cross-posted on The Brudaimonia) That Frank Murkowski grumbles about Alaska getting a bad reputation in the lower 48 states while his and his cronies' policies are the real reasons for it is an...
View ArticleRage Against Gas Prices
(Cross-posted at Someone Took In These Pants...)The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. - Isaac AsimovThey call Los Angeles the "City...
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