By Mark | January 26, 2017
While I loved the “I’d call Trump a cunt, but he lacks the depth and warmth” poster at this past weekend’s Women’s March on Washington, and the one the girl was holding that said “Have your wall, but our generation will tear it down,” I think this one (seen above) was my favorite… And, hopefully, […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged @roguenasa, anti-science, Badlands National Park, border wall, cunts, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fake news, Free Speech, global climate change, Global Warming, House Committee on Science Space and Technology, Lamar Smith, lies, marches, NASA, National Park Service, peer review, protest signs, Republican lies, research, resistance, Science, scientists are witches, Scientists' March on Washington, social media, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, truth, Women's March on Washington |
By Mark | September 26, 2012
One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
Posted in Agriculture, Economics | Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street |
A few days ago, we started debating an opinion piece that ran in the New York Times on higher education reform. The author of that piece, as you may recall, among other things, suggested that the institution of tenure be dissolved. As you can imagine, several readers of this site, many of whom work at […]
