I’ve come here to this community for a discussion about many issues, from the war in Iraq to filibustering Sam Alito to stopping drilling in the Arctic -- and many others. And now I’m glad that the folks (special thanks to Meteor Blades and Patriot Daily) here are coordinating this period to try and focus discussion on an issue I’m working on hours and hours each week in the Senate -- climate change and the effort to build a new, clean energy economy to help address it.
I’ve come here to this community for a discussion about many issues, from the war in Iraq to filibustering Sam Alito to stopping drilling in the Arctic -- and many others.
And now I’m glad that the folks (special thanks to Meteor Blades and Patriot Daily) here are coordinating this period to try and focus discussion on an issue I’m working on hours and hours each week in the Senate -- climate change and the effort to build a new, clean energy economy to help address it.
The Democratic-controlled Senate has defeated a Republican attempt to block a final vote on a huge year-end spending bill. The 60-34 vote to end debate during a rare Saturday session sets the stage for a final vote Sunday afternoon on the $1.1 trillion measure. The bill combines generous increases for domestic agencies and foreign aid with a 2% average pay raise for federal workers.
The Democratic-controlled Senate has defeated a Republican attempt to block a final vote on a huge year-end spending bill.
The 60-34 vote to end debate during a rare Saturday session sets the stage for a final vote Sunday afternoon on the $1.1 trillion measure. The bill combines generous increases for domestic agencies and foreign aid with a 2% average pay raise for federal workers.
Virtually everywhere in the world people tend to be more educated than their parents. This is no longer true in the United States. A report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities indicates that the U.S. is one of only two nations on Earth in which people aged 25 to 34 have lower educational attainment than their parents.
A lot of this is probably driven by heavy outside linkage. But still, the fact that Sarah Palin, of all people, is able to command such attention for her views on the science of climate change, of all things, is kind of amazing.
How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum.
New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows.
There are fewer sex scandals involving women because there are fewer women in roles prominent enough to cause a sex scandal. Think of the categories of people that there’s sex scandals about: athletes, politicians, late night talk show hosts, basically people who have more than celebrity, but who have authority. (Though this is increasingly less true of athletes, which is a good thing. They’ve never really been that upstanding a crowd.) There’s not much scandal if the person having the illicit sex is someone who is supposed to be doing that, like a movie star or a rock musician. It’s only someone with gravitas, and the ranks of those people are overwhelmingly male.
[P]unched in the face, pepper-sprayed, shit-kicked, handcuffed, thrown wet and half-naked into a holding cell for three fucking hours, thrown into an even colder jail cell overnight ...
I know the guy and one thing he's not is a terrorist. An easy way to send Watts a message of support: buy the sci-fi novel Blindsight. I'll see if I can find out more. -- DS