Looking for good, fresh, seasonal produce that tastes as good as it looks? Want to support your local (small, organic) farm but don't know where to find it? Do you know what a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is? Want to find a farmer's market in your area? Better yet, want to order said produce online?
For answers to these and other questions, check out Local Harvest.
I mean, it's just so cool!!
Today's Daily Mislead is a beautiful example of irony. A factory in Canton, Ohio touted in 2003 by Our Fair President as an example of how tax cuts for the rich will affect the future of employment has been shut down by its owner, putting 1,300 people out of work. I'm sure it's a comfort to the people of Canton that their former employer will receive more in tax cuts than all of them combined.
The new Stephen Spielberg / Tom Hanks film The Terminal, as strange as it may seem, is based on an actual person living at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.
From TrueMajority:
Last year, TrueMajority and a whole group of other organizations urged Congress to stop funding the nuclear "bunker buster" bomb. The budget was cut in half. Now the Bush administration is trying to get it funded again.
Tell Congress the answer is still NO.
The chairman of our Military Advisory Committee, Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (USN, ret.) literally had his finger on the button. Here's what he's got to say:
I used to command ships armed with nuclear weapons. The idea was that if pushed to the wall, my fleet could wipe out Soviet submarines and bombers using some nuclear depth charges and nuclear surface to air missiles without igniting a full-scale nuclear holocaust.
We all knew that it was hogwash. First, these so-called "battlefield" nukes were so powerful that using them would kill my own sailors. Second, once we went nuclear, there was no way the Soviets wouldn't also. And third, nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction and simply immoral to use. President Bush the elder eventually scuttled battlefield nukes, and Congress made it illegal to create new "mini-nukes" in 1993 when it passed the Spratt-Furse provision.
Now Pres. Bush the younger and Congress repealed that ban and are working to create a whole new generation of what they're now calling "useable" nukes. The "bunker buster" is the first in a long line of projects that would start
up production of nuclear weapons.
This is not the time for our country to build new nuclear weapons, having signed the global Non-Proliferation Treaty with over a hundred other nations. It'd be hard to complain that countries like North Korea shouldn't build new nuclear weapons when the Bush Administration proposes doing the very same thing. And giving more "useable nukes" to this trigger-happy White House might result in America actually launching nuclear weapons in the heat of the next pre-emptive war.
Do the world a favor, send Congress faxes telling them you think no nuke is a good nuke and they shouldn't try to build any. Just click this link.
Then send this email to your friends and ask them to do the same.
Thanks,
Vice Adm. Jack Shanahan (Ret.)
Background on the Bunker Buster:
The multimillion dollar Robust Nuclear Earth
Penetrator, designed for use against underground bunkers would have explosive power up to 70 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. Its supporters say it's a "clean" nuclear weapon because it penetrates the earth before detonating. In reality, if it were detonated in a city, tens of thousands of people could receive a fatal dose of radiation. More people would be killed or injured by the extreme pressures of the blast and thermal injuries. Still more would die from fires and buildings collapsing from the seismic shock. For more information visit www.wand.org.
See how spending on nuclear weapons could be better invested in your community, visit TrueMajority.
Here is the letter we'll send to your Members of Congress:
Dear [we'll fill in your representative's name here]:
To make our nation more secure, please eliminate all funds for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, also known as the bunker buster. New U.S. nuclear weapons will make us less safe by encouraging other countries to rely on nuclear weapons for their security. We need to reduce reliance on the most horrific weapons ever created and make global disarmament our priority.
Please the take money under consideration for this program and spend it on schools, humanitarian foreign aid or health care to build real national security.
Sincerely,
[We'll put your name and address here]
Ever wonder what happened to all those important news stories you should be hearing about on Fox?
Well, I found the (memory) hole down which they stuff all that info.
This site picks up the important news stories that were carried by maybe one outlet and then surreptiously dropped. It can load a little slowly -- I think it's getting a lot of hits . . .
Sorry. Having trouble coming up with a pun that fits the intersection of Darwinism and poetry. The authors of the site just call it Darwinian Poetry, and write, "The goal of this project is to see if non-negotiated collaboration can evolve interesting poetry using (un)natural selection."
It's very interesting!
I was wondering how long it would take to get realistic skin textures for digital characters. As it turns out, the breakthrough came from our very own UCSD! Now we know why Gollum was so spookily real.
Looks like the U.S. is second to none... when it comes to wasteful health care. I know, it's not shocking that we pay twice as much as people anywhere else in the world, but it is shocking that we get the same or worse care overall. The trend carries through across America, too; cities get the same marginal care whether they're insured or not, wealthy or not.
This site has moved to a new host. If you're reading this, you're on the new site. Welcome!
You may notice some oddness over the next few days as the Internet catches up with our slight change. Please bear with us!
Want your kids to have the fun of learning about dinosaurs without all that misleading, distracting evolutionary theory? Want to throw science out the window in favor of good old fundamentalist belief? Have I got the theme park for you! (It's NY Times - it didn't make me sign in, but sometimes NY Times does. Worth reading if you can).
You may remember from a couple of years ago that scientists accidentally found that a crow (specifically a female crow) had tool-making capabilities that suggested very strong reasoning. While digging up more info on this for one of my classes, I came across a great site about it, which includes a Real Player video clip of Miss Betty the Crow doing her stuff. Yay!
Our good friend Terry Jones provides a linguistic analysis of the war in Iraq.