Month March 2007

The Left and climate change

Life of Riley has a highly useful post of leftist views on the environment and climate change, including podcasts and background material. It’s titled Environmentally aware blogging and podcasting from a determined left perspective. Check it out. Greenie treehugger sites…

SoCal garages and yards

A UCLA anthropologist studied the use of garages and lawns by dual-income middle class southern California families and found that garages were so stuffed with clutter that cars couldn’t fit in them and the carefully maintained yards were practically never…

Fireworks in South America?

A little bird tells us This week Dubya will be in Montevideo, Uruguay, at about the same time Hugo Chávez will be visiting the Río de la Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Will there be fireworks across the River Plate?…

The Amistad sails again

In June, a replica of the slave ship Amistad will sail from Connecticut to Liverpool, which had been a major slaving port. From there it will sail to the old slave coast of Africa in commemoration of the 200th anniversary…