Today the US Department of State issued its final Environmental Impact Statement on the construction of this “death funnel,” as Charlie Pierce calls it. “Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand …
We had some heavy wind and rain yesterday. At one point I heard a noise outside and went to look, and this is what I found: From Events That’s a coral tree that’s been in front of the house since the first days of the neighborhood. There’s another one on the other side of the …
Lounging bedside after her spa treatment. Wash and brush-out, teeth cleaned, and (ew!) anal glands expressed. From Events
I wonder if anyone looked at Obama this evening and said that to him. It’s true, though. Tonight was his sixth time standing up there in the House chamber. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe his 2016 speech will be the one in which he just tears into the opposition and tells them what …
At 94, it’s hard to say he went too soon, but the world will surely miss him. Labor rights champion, civil rights proselytizer, environmentalist, and always, always antiwar activist. Here’s one of his greatest compositions. Here he was at President Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 with grandson Tao Rodriguez and Bruce Springsteen singing Woody Guthrie’s …
iTunes has been bugging me for a few days to upgrade to its latest version for Windows, 11.1.4. I had a few minutes this afternoon so I clicked the button. Boy, did that cause a riot. I downloaded, clicked “run” and ran into lovely errors which told me the installation had failed and I’d have …
Anybody remember the wonderful comedy “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World?” On January 20 a brand spanking new edition of the film in both DVD and Blu-Ray was released. It’s huge: a five-disk set which contains the following: Restored 4K digital film transfer of the general release version of the film, with 5.1 surround …
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This time in Columbia, Maryland. When police officers arrived, they found three people dead inside a skate shop on the upper level of the two-story center, the Mall in Columbia. Two of the victims were a young man and woman who worked at the store. The body of another man, who is suspected of being …
They reward the guys who lead the banks into calamity. Case in point, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase. This week, directors, gathered in a conference room at the bank’s Park Avenue headquarters overlooking a snow-covered Central Park, discussed what message their next decision on the bank chieftain’s compensation would send. The debate pitted a …
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Goodness. Not a good day for that rebranding of the Republican party as one friendly to women. First former Governor Mike Huckabee said “Democrats want women to think ‘they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government.’” Then it’s revealed that a Republican Congressman wrote in a new book …