By Mark | January 3, 2011
The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday on the budding invasivore food movement. For those who missed it, here’s a clip: There’s a new shift in the politics of food, not quite a movement yet, more of an eco-culinary frisson. But it may have staying power; the signs and portents are there. […]
Posted in Environment, Food, Global Warming | Also tagged asian carp, Canada goose, coypu, Eating Aliens, ecology, garlic mustard, giant rodents, Huron River, invasive species, invasive species and how they taste, invasive species diet, invasivore, Jackson Landers, Kentucky tuna, kudzu, lionfish, locavore, mouse-beaver, Myopotamus coypus, nutria, Rachel Kesel, Riverside Park, rodents, White Castle |
By Mark | December 21, 2010
The results of the 2010 Census were made public today. Among other things, it was revealed that the U.S. population grew 9.7% over the course of the past decade, which is the slowest rate of growth since the Great Depression. That, of course, is an average, and some states did better than others. While several […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2010 census, 9/11, Anthony Weiner, census, first responders, Gary Peters, Great Depression, House, Hurricane Katrina, John Conyers, John Dingell, Jon Stewart, Lynn Rivers, Michigan's 13th congressional district, Michigan's 16th congressional district, population decline, redistricting, Sander Levin, Thunderdome, Voting Rights Act |
The people of Florida have been standing up to oil industry pressure for decades. While their neighboring coastal states have approved off-shore drilling, in hopes creating jobs, and filling their coffers, the people of Florida have stood strong, opting to forgo immediate financial gratification, and instead safeguard their shoreline and wetlands for future generations. Of […]
Posted in Environment, Michigan | Also tagged ammonia, BP, censorship, Deepwater Horizon, Florida, Indiana, Lake Michigan, off-shore drilling, oil slick, sludge, Whiting |
It’s now coming out that, when Obama was visiting the Louisiana coast a few days ago, surveying the extent of the damage wrought by the BP oil leak, many of the individuals that he, and the rest of us watching at home, thought were BP workers, were in fact temps hired by Tony Haward and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Corporate Crime, energy | Also tagged America Speaking Out, angry Republicans and their ideas, Any Rand, BP, chemical dispersants, child labor, corporate death penalty, Deepwater Horizon, deregulation, dolphins, fish, Lake Michigan, mammals, reptilian humanoids, Republican platform, tea party, Tea Partyfication, Tony Hayward, top kill, toxic waste, Wall Street, whales |
I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Fidel Castro, but it’s hard to disagree with him on the current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what it illustrates. Here’s what he had to say in a statement released yesterday: This disaster “shows how little governments can do against those who control the capital, […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Politics | Also tagged BP, corporate takeover of politics, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Florida, globalization, Gulf of Mexico, Mothers' Day, oil, oil spills, Rush Limbaugh |
