If you are a major university and research institution and if members of your staff are blatant advocates for a genocidal, profiteering, propaganda mongering industry, your institution deserves to lose all accreditation – at least in the Geosciences department –…
Today, I had the opportunity to attend the press conference that preceded the Shale Gas Outrage Demonstration. Below are the videos of those who gave statements at the press conference. The speakers are residents and activists in Marcellus Shale Region,…
I am not able to be at Shale Gas Outrage in person–though I’d give an ARM to be–but I have been offered an AWESOME opportunity of three beautiful minutes to talk about one of the most important events in recent…
Amazing video from Mother Jones. Romney speaks to super-wealth donors at May 17th fundraiser in Boca Raton.
__________ Lee Camp is a stand-up comic. …Sometimes people make him write things too. He’s a contributor to The Onion and has performed stand-up comedy at events featuring Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. If you like Lee Camp,…
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is currently on strike. Here’s a background video documenting some of the forces they’re up against. Yes, these are the people with whom Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel is standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Keep up with the latest developments at CTU…
Currently, Terrance “Terry” Williams is awaiting his death, scheduled for less than a month from today. On October 3, 2012, Terry will be executed by the state of Pennsylvania unless Governor Tom Corbett and the Board of Pardons can be…
Suppose you are a leader of a nationally prominent environmental conservation society or even a local conversation society. Let’s say the society is the Audubon Society or the Ruffed Grouse Society, whose missions, respectively, are: “To conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing…
Every so often, the tax exempt status of our regions non-profits prompts a fair bit of discussion in the public square. Recent articles in the Post-Gazette written by both Nicholas Cafardi and Sally Kalson have described how the Pennsylvania Supreme Court…
