Month September 2007

The Hartford Courant on Sat. quoted two blogs, FireDogLake and MyLeftNutmeg, on the front page in an article about how rightwing warmonger Rep. Chris Shays is losing support, and that blogs are helping to lead the charge.

About 150 marched Saturday in Hartford CT in support of the Jena 6, including current Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez and former Mayor Thirman Milner. For a grassroots march called on short notice with little time for outreach, getting this many…

From the authors of Breakthrough. There are five reasons why setting a price on carbon dioxide, either through a cap and trade approach or an outright tax, cannot reduce greenhouse gas emissions anywhere close to what is needed. 1. The…

The town of Riverside NJ passed a nasty, racist ordinance designed to drive undocumented workers out of town. It worked! So many undocumented workers left town that their local economy collapsed. The town has now rescinded the ordinance.

A conservative estimate is that 9.4% of total US electric consumption is from computers. This includes data servers and PCs, but not printers, scanners, faxes and the endless rechargeable devices that access the Net. Too many devices continue to draw…