Lindsay Graham Is Absolutely Right.
Last month, the nationwide unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. This is the most severe recession since WWII, and there is much discussion in Washington (not to mention just about every state...
View ArticleWill You Lift A Finger To Help End Relationship Abuse And Violence? Ne-Yo Did.
I have learned a lot recently about how heartbreaking relationship abuse and violence is. How it can destroy smart intelligent women and their daughters and their families. And how it can be stopped...
View ArticleThe Business Of American Business Is Green.
What do big names Avista, Calpine, Deutsche Bank Asset Management, PG&E, Recycled Energy Development and Warner Music Group all have in common? They are the latest to join the rapidly growing...
View ArticleHey California, Don't Get Fooled Again.
Down in the Lone Star State, they like to say that everything is bigger in Texas. I am not sure they were talking about the lies Texas companies like to try and sell the good people of California, but...
View ArticleNRDC's New Videos On Clean Energy Reveal the Faces and Potential of the Green...
A review of NRDC's new videos on Clean Energy. You can see the videos this review is about at CleanEnergyStories.org
View ArticleFeeling Dirty?
DIRT! The Movie educates, entertains and engages viewers about the importance of dirt.
View ArticleWhat's Up With the Rainforest: Rate of Forest Loss Has Decreased, But We're...
It is no secret the impact humans have had on earth. With the world population nearing 7 billion, can we even come close to realizing the magnitude to which our impact extends? Part of the problem in...
View ArticleBreaking: Huge Texas Tea Spill Threatens California
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows - So I guess I'm not surprised to see the self-proclaimed advocates of freedom, justice, and the American way (Tea Party) get between the sheets with out...
View Article3-2-1 and the Social Change Film Forum at Harvard
Once upon a time, before Facebook and Twitter and everything else we consider new media, a film documentary had a limited ability to make an impact (as good as some of the older documentaries were.) An...
View ArticleDear Senator Reid: I'm In The Ring With You On This One.
"Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world." Senator Harry Reid It "may be the most important policy we will ever pass." Senator Harry...
View ArticleWhat's Up With the Rainforest: More Hope, Less Blame
Celebrations of Earth Day has garnered some more of the world's attention to the environmental crisis threatening the health of the global community and our planet, but we must not forget that working...
View ArticleThe Time Has Come. The Time Is Now.
This week in Washington, debate was supposed to begin on a bill to address climate change and clean energy. The effort led by Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman is one of, if not the most important...
View ArticleI Am Responsible For the Oil Spill
In line at Starbucks this morning, watching cars stack up outside at the drive-thru, I realized that I and each and every one of us is responsible for the oil spill that is now tragically ashore in the...
View ArticleWhat's Up With the Rainforest: United States has higher percentage of forest...
We can't allow the constant reminders of the damage we have done to our planet overshadow the fact that we still have the chance to prevent the past from repeating itself. With advancements in science...
View ArticleAre You S***ing Me?
As the greatest domestic environmental disaster of this generation, and perhaps in the end of all generations, unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, with literally no end in sight, the Grand Old Party has...
View ArticleLove, Death, And The Hardest Mother's Day Of All
Mother's Day should be a happy day, but this Mother's Day, my first thoughts will be of the mother of young Yeardley Love who has recently killed in a horrific act of domestic violence. This young...
View ArticleEvidently You Should Put A Cork In It.
Yesterday in New York City, I had the chance to speak at a conference sponsored by The Rainforest Alliance on "Sustainability And Social Media." It was a remarkable gathering of people from all around...
View ArticleYou Talked the Talk. Now Let's Walk the Walk.
As BP pumps thousands of barrels of toxic oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the threat our dependence on fossil fuels holds should be clearer now than ever before. In the wake of this great...
View ArticleTee For One.
As the days grow longer, one of my favorite times to play golf alone begins to shape up, late Sunday afternoons, early evenings actually, with the shadows growing longer, the course empty and the pace...
View ArticleRoman Polanski And The Celebration Of Rape And Violence
The new "People" magazine asks a pathetic simple question about young Yeardley Love, "Could She Have Been Saved?" Could a young woman have been saved from a pathetic monster who beat her head in and...
View ArticleOne Month After The Oil Spill, It's Time To Act.
For thirty days and thirty nights, oil has poured into one of our country's most important environmental and economic areas, it's time to act.
View ArticleCollective Failure. Singular Opportunity.
Last Thursday was the one-month anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster and every day, we see more and more evidence that collectively we have failed to not only act, but also we have failed to organize...
View ArticleTake A Break From Kicking Republicans. (And Save Lives In Africa.)
I will keep this brief. Today, in honor of The World Cup, Yahoo has turned their special Penalty Shootout Game (RED) in order to help raise money for AIDS In Africa. What this means is that all day...
View ArticleMarkos: You're Handling The Polling Mess Great.
What a nightmare and what a mess. But you have stood up, told the truth and are not doing what we have seen so many do and pass the buck, make excuses or fold. Hats off to Nate Silver as well for...
View ArticleAmericans Don't Burn Books.
Enough is enough. Enough with the bigotry and the hate. Enough with the race-baiting and the fake debate about the Ground Zero Mosque. Enough of white Americans putting up fences to keep their fellow...
View ArticleRepublicans Finally Denounce Koran Burning - Stand Up For 1st Amendment.
Finally, I was getting worried. Knowing how Republican leaders like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, John Boehner, et cetera, love the Constitution and love defending it, you knew that eventually they would...
View ArticlePlease God: Make McConnell Filibuster The Bush Millionaire Tax Cuts
There have been lots of stories about how the Democrats can rally from two plus years of perceived ineptitude and salvage the November elections. Well, Senator Minority Leader McConnell has promised to...
View ArticleWhat Global Warming Looks Like.
With the defeat of Mike Castle, there's not one current or potential GOP candidate who is anything close to reasonable on climate change and clean energy. I wish that every single one of those idiots...
View ArticleDon’t Do as the Senate Does – Act Now on Climate Change
2010 has been a year of missed opportunities for the environment. From no progress or worse on the international climate action stage, to a clean energy bill in the U.S. Senate that is still on ice...
View ArticleBig Oil's About to Go Big Money in California
Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in...
View ArticleDean Should Run
Here's why. He is untethered to Washington and all its bullshit. He has run and lost and that's invaluable. He is smart enough to have learned from that mistake. He is a Doctor. I have heard that...
View ArticleActually, The Global Fund Got It Right On Corruption.
The headlines scream for attention and plenty of hand-wringing and I told you so's. Massive Problems With Celebrity Driven Aide; UN Investigation As Sweden Reneges. Global Disease Fund Seeks to Recover...
View ArticleOn May 12, Where Will You Be?
This morning in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will propose a new budget for New York City. It will resemble many of the state budgets that we have seen proposed throughout the country, as...
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Welcome To On May 12th.
Today's the day. It's May 12, 2011 and enough is enough. If you are tired of watching as the banks and the people who caused our financial crisis not only get away with their crimes but get rewarded...
View ArticleHomeless Veterans Sue.
This disturbs me from today's NY TIMES. Steve Mackey, the president of the California state council of Vietnam Veterans of America, said the lawsuits were “a last resort.” “We have spent years working...
View ArticleAmy Goodman In New Bedford This Weekend.
This coming weekend, hundreds of inspiring and inspired people will come together in New Bedford, Massachusetts for the 7th Annual Connecting for Change conference. A Bioneers by the Bay Conference,...
View ArticleNow Let's Welcome Them Home.
When President Obama re-affirmed his commitment to have all the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011, my thoughts went to two different groups of veterans and one remarkable project I was recently...
View ArticleCain Episode Shows Again - Republicans Play A Different Game.
Yesterday Dave Johnson wrote an insightful post on Smoking Politics about the Herman Cain media blow up on harassment claims. He's dead on with his analysis. But there is one thought I would add to...
View ArticleYes It Would Have Been Amazing.
This post originally appeared on Smoking Politics. I have an uncle I love dearly, but to say he is a Republican is an understatement. But one thing he has taught me politically is how email has become...
View ArticleI Read The News Today. Oh Boy.
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. We often focus, and frankly understandably so, on the big deceptions the Right plays because it's hard not to notice the impact of climate change...
View ArticleBachman, Rove, Palin And The Right's Increasingly Distant Relationship With...
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. Steve Benen and Greg Sargent have written some pretty sharp and strong posts about Karl Rove's Crossroads group and the ads they have been running,...
View ArticlePROP MAIL - "Parenting" The Occupy Protestors
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. A new email is circling from the Right, written by a woman who claims to be a parenting expert, but clearly knows very little about the economic...
View ArticlePROP MAIL: What A Coincidence. Not.
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. As our inbox gets regularly flooded with examples of the right propaganda email, we look forward to dissecting them and also recognizing those that...
View Article175 Chickens in 1 Minute?!
You'd think the USDA would see the flaw of logic in letting the people who make the food inspect the food and decide if it is actually safe to eat. The USDA has decided in its infinite wisdom, despite...
View ArticleFalling in Love... with Dirt
Paul Quinn College has found a way to score big on the football field—without playing a single down.
View ArticleRe-Reading Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam" In Vietnam
I haven’t read this since either Groton or Duke. And now I am trying to re-read it before I make it down to the DMZ and before my visit to Khe Sanh next week. It’s such a good and complete history of...
View ArticleDear Max: A Letter To Max Cleland From Hill 471 Khe Sanh
Dear Max: Well, here I am, Hill 471 in Khe Sanh. I came here because I love and admire you and since I was touring Vietnam I figured what the hell, I'll head up to Khe Sanh and find Hill 471 and stand...
View ArticlePlease Meet Skull.
(picture here) Please meet Skull, Skull and I have just met ourselves but it’s been fascinating to get to know him and I think you should know him as well. I say he, as a guess, for really Skull is...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Keep Paying Attention To The Ossoff Campaign.
It’s been less than a week since Jon Ossoff lost a perfectly winnable race in Georgia and spent over $25,000,000 of our money in doing so — gathering just under 150,000 votes for his, and our efforts....
View ArticleRalph Nader Was, And Is, Absolutely Right.
In 2000, Nader's candidacy was the combination of Comey letter / Russian Rumors that allowed the Gore campaign and the DC consultants to point a finger at something other than their own incompetency...
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