Archive for July, 2005

Tar Creek biggest Superfund site

An Oklahoma travesty, via Joni:

May 2005 Engineer Update
In the 50-square-mile part of Oklahoma known as the Tar Creek Superfund Site, tainted waters run orange in creeks and streams, poisonous mountains of chat (mining cast-off) define the horizon, hundreds of dangerous and deteriorating open mineshafts dot the landscape, sinkholes constantly threaten, and children have high blood lead

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Oprah Doprah

I Blame The Patriarchy reads Oprah. Much patriarchy-blaming, gnashing of teeth and hilarity ensues.
I have only one thing to add:
Oprah, buy me a house (taxes too!), and all will be forgiven.

Why I’m a Green, Example 3,547

Digby noted on Friday (during my news blackout while attending the annual Greens meeting) that not one Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed up for the hearing to review the confirmation of Karen Hughes to handle public relations for the State Department.
As usual, the Democrats have their heads up their asses at exactly the wrong… Read the rest

A friendly note

I want to repeat here something I posted to the Mambo version of ReCollection during its brief life: registration to this site will get you access to some posts that are not available to the non-registered. Not all that big a deal, just some more personal stuff and the occasional © article that I want to keep where I can… Read the rest

SCOTUS blogs – Updated

Update:
The Supreme Court Guide for Activists (a project of The American Prospect)
Feel free to add others you find in the comments

Goin’ to Tulsa

I’m about to leave for Tulsa, for the national Greens meeting. Looking forward to talking with attendees from around the country, as well as other Okie Greens. I still don’t know where I’ll be sleeping, but going on faith that something will materialize.

Former CIA agents letter about Plame leak

It’s pretty pathetic when former intel officers have to explain in detail to the world something as obvious as the fact that it’s a bad thing to expose the identity of a spy, but apparently that’s what it’s come to.
I never thought I’d be rooting for the CIA — see my earlier post on this as a… Read the rest

Uncapitalist Journal

New blog in town:

Here at the UnCJournal, our team of writers will bring you news, commentary, and analysis on topics such as:

  • Income disparity
  • Privatization versus public ownership
  • The corporate erosion of democracy
  • Corporate crime
  • The IMF/WB/WTO
  • Workers’ rights
  • Unions and labor organizing
  • International solidarity movements
  • Free trade vs. fair trade debates
  • Anti-globalization perspectives and alternatives
  • Sustainable

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Political fashion statement

Oklahoma’s red flag waves again, thanks to my friends and OK Greens co-conspirators, Rachel Jackson and James Branum. They have developed and are selling t-shirts (maybe later other products?) that are based on the now-banned agrarian-socialist flag that symbolized the state from 1911 to 1924.
As I told James, I think the forbidden nature of this… Read the rest