Global warming doubles rate of ocean rise
Ocean levels are rising twice as fast today as they were 150 years ago, and human-induced warming appears to be the culprit, say scientists at Rutgers.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month January 2006
Bungee trip
Sue and I are in Bethesda, Maryland now. She has a job interview on Monday. The total trip, including flying time to/from L.A. will be 2 1/2 days. Walking to the car tonight from dinner in DC, it was about…
Radio’s Chris Douridas arrested
KCRW host is suspected of drugging and trying to kidnap a girl, 14, but has not been charged. KCRW-FM radio host Chris Douridas, an influential Grammy-nominated musical tastemaker who has consulted on such Hollywood films as "American Beauty" and "Shrek…
Ruling class debates Iraq war strategies
From my friend Ian Thompson writing in Socialism and Liberation magazine. The anti-war movement and Congressional ‘opposition.’ Nearly three years after launching the war on Iraq, the Bush administration has a crisis on its hands. The war has proven to…
Europe ‘complicit over CIA jails’
A Swiss senator carrying out an inquiry into claims the CIA has run illegal secret detention centres in Europe has said he has no doubt they exist. Dick Marty accused the US of violating human rights and attacked European nations…