The Leroy Stick
@BPGlobalPR is a wonderful use of the internet, via Twitter, to heap some well-deserved abuse at a scoundrel of a recipient. Sometimes the tedium of programming administrative-level web applications is almost too much to bear, but it’s shit like this that keeps me excited about the medium, and about mankind’s potential for disruptive social commentary done through alternate means. Banksy comes to mind.
Anyway, 100,000+ followers can’t be wrong. Satire is honesty without pretension.
I ponied up $25 for the t-shirt. I’ve spent more on far more spurious causes.
"Omnivore's Dilemma" Author Michael Pollan's New Advice on Buying Food: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"
Not a bad piece of advice. Pollan’s insights on our country’s twin problems of food production and consumption are spot-on.
An interview with author James Howard Kunstler
“I’m really rather worried that we’re going to squander our remaining resources on a campaign to sustain the unsustainable.”
Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
Necessary action, those environmental studies, but questionable timing.
Couldn’t call it unexpected
Spotted in the newspaper this morning, and worthy of attention.
- White House asserts executive privilege in EPA dispute
- US asks to rewrite detainee evidence
- Deal Reached in Congress to Rewrite Rules on Wiretapping
Like Dylan said, “when you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.” Who are the hangers-on who still think this joke of an administration is worthy of anything but contempt?
And great job, Democrats, of working on that new agenda. I hear there’s some oil off of the coast just waiting to be had.
Carrotmob: Green Shopping Goes Social
Flash mobs, auction markets, and environmental activism get together for a roll in the sack.
Way to Go Seattle
Pardon my French, but why the fuck aren’t more cities doing things like this?
