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The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. - By Dahlia Lithwick
The Bush administration continues to limit our basic freedoms, conceal its own worst behavior, and insist that it does all this in order to make us more free. In that spirit, it seemed an opportune moment to commemorate the administration’s worst legal justifications [...]

Your Stuff’s Backstory: If It Isn’t Grown, It Must Be Mined:
Where does your stuff come from? Before the store, before the factory, where did it really begin? If it isn’t made of wood, cloth, or other living matter, it was dug out of the ground.
Number one of The Natural Step’s four System Conditions is that [...]

James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has published a 110 page report titled “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007“.
The report is introduced with:
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects [...]

I can’t respond to any emails today. « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?:
I can’t respond to any emails today.

Something has crashed on my computer . . .

Thomas did a post of his five favorite sunset photos from last summer. Thomas Laupstad is a photographer from Northern Norway and I am constantly amazed by the beauty of his work. He posts his work on his blog at Photos from Northern Norway.
I wish I had more use for a calendar [...]

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This is a video by c71123 on Vimeo based on 8 years worth of daily photos.

MayorTV:
“The media and the pollsters focus on issues like war, abortion, gay rights. Quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, they’re not the hot button issues.” — Mayor Manny Diaz
Out of shared frustration with the absence of discussion about cities this campaign season–after all, only 20 percent of Americans live in rural America–The [...]

‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban: Bush blinks, Bali succeeds!:

Climate change is one crucial arena– along with nuclear weapons– in which the wellbeing and survival of US citizens are seen as very clearly inter-reliant with the survival and wellbeing of the rest of the world’s 6 billion people. We are all in this frail boat [...]

Join Wexler’s Call for Cheney Hearings:
A CASE FOR HEARINGS By Representatives and Members of the Judiciary Committee:
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send [...]

OpenCongress - OpenCongress on Facebook:
With the OpenCongress Facebook app, you can put bills that interest you on your Facebook profile. It’s an easy way to tell your friends which pieces of legislation you are following. You can also add a comment about why you think the bill is important.