| These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
|---|
|
The devastation and already experiential impact�of climate change may not yet be�a kitchen table issue, but given the following, it sure ought�to be:
"There is a rapidly closing window of ...
by boatsie
 176 comments
on Thu Mar 23, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 44 Recommends
|
|
A recent diary by Pakalolo �warns that billions of people will be displaced by climate extremes by 2050. A comment in the same diary by marsanges warns us that� “All generations going forwards ...
by Rise above the swamp
18 comments
on Sat Oct 02, 2021 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
|
|
Earlier this month I published a diary for the Climate Brief that included a calendar of things to do each day to help resolve the climate change crisis. How did I do? 1. I am eating all vegetarian meals. 2. I turn off the shower when soaping up to...
by Rise above the swamp
10 comments
on Mon Aug 30, 2021 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
|
|
Today, we celebrate the 85th birthday of Jane Goodall, the famed and beloved English primatologist, anthropologist, conservation activist, and environmentalist, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on April 3, 1934 in Hampstead, London.
Considered to be...
by AKALib
45 comments
on Wed Apr 03, 2019 at 04:05 PM PDT
with 97 Recommends
|
|
The Swiss government this week put a ban on the practice of throwing live lobsters into boiling water; they will be required to be stunned before they are cooked or killed, starting in March. According to Swiss public broadcaster RTS, only electric...
by AKALib
131 comments
on Sat Jan 13, 2018 at 06:48 PM PST
with 29 Recommends
|
|
My guess is that meat sales will be on the rise for a few years. I hear that a January 20th Executive Order will require every federal employee to purchase a weekly minimum of Trump Steaks. If a state wants to receive federal assistance during...
by melanielynn
1 comments
on Thu Nov 24, 2016 at 08:54 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
|
|
In 2014, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party won an outright majority of seats in the Indian parliament. India has a highly fragmented multi-party system with multiple regional and national ...
by subir
216 comments
on Sat Oct 03, 2015 at 10:50 PM PDT
with 251 Recommends
|
|
Pictured here during his 1909 safari, Theodore Roosevelt poses with a downed African elephant.
For the vast majority of his time on the planet, man has been a hunter. From his proto-human ancestors ...
by scryer
77 comments
on Thu Sep 03, 2015 at 05:17 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
|
|
Call me picayune, but yesterday morning, I woke up annoyed with Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner and all my MSNBC friends. My husband was blasting All In over the internet. Alex Wagner was reviewing the new ...
by TheFatLadySings
88 comments
on Sun Mar 30, 2014 at 06:28 AM PDT
with 109 Recommends
|
|
If your meat has to be killed, gutted, deboned, fried, fricasseed, stewed, barbequed, sauced, seasoned, and served on a sesame seed bun then perhaps you're not a carnivore.
by thefarleftside
38 comments
on Mon Mar 17, 2014 at 09:46 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
|
|
Being obese, I’m always looking for a good diet. Just as I was finally considering the “Caveman Diet,” “Paleolithic Diet,” or, simply, “Paleo Diet,” my Discover magazine’s ...
by corwinabell
65 comments
on Fri Feb 14, 2014 at 09:44 PM PST
with 34 Recommends
|
|
I have numerous food allergies. Soy, all other legumes (garbanzo beans, peas, beans,peanuts, etc) gluten (wheat, barley, etc), bell & chili peppers, eggplant, and all nuts except almonds and pecans (
by Former Chicagoan Now Angeleno
34 comments
on Wed Dec 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM PST
with 7 Recommends
|
|
Here’s something I should have added to my first diary post from yesterday.
Helping the environment should be a continuing part of our lives.
And we definitely should do something more than ...
by Save The Environment
2 comments
on Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 11:03 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
|
|
“The only message in it is all the holidays are about pressing pause in your life and getting together with the people that you love and appreciating them.”
--Jimmy Hayward, writer-director ...
by Jennifer A Epps
2 comments
on Thu Nov 28, 2013 at 07:59 PM PST
with 2 Recommends
|
|
That's what the city of Los Angelas sends to rendering plants to be turned into.... pet food mostly.
Waste not want not I guess, plus all the junk that's in the bodies of sick cats and dogs either ...
by ban nock
30 comments
on Sun Apr 28, 2013 at 04:37 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
|
|
3 minutes
Steven Rinella has some hunting TV show that focuses more on the woodsy aspects of the activity,,,, I think. I think because I've never actually watched the show, only read about it. I ...
by ban nock
29 comments
on Mon Sep 17, 2012 at 05:10 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
|
|
Ariel Kaminer writes a weekly ethics column in the New York Times Magazine, which I often enjoy. This week’s edition announces a new essay column for Times readers, inviting them to submit 600 ...
by H Scott Prosterman
19 comments
on Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 11:54 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
|
|
An entry in the How To Be Poor series
To better understand the distorted viewpoint of our culture that I wrote about in the last post, I want to talk about food and diet. As I tend to reference my ...
by aimlessmind
130 comments
on Sat Feb 25, 2012 at 03:30 PM PST
with 55 Recommends
|
|
This man is an idiot.
GQ _magazine_ hosts a pizza party with Herman Cain ...
by Scott Wooledge
147 comments
on Mon Nov 14, 2011 at 12:19 PM PST
with 59 Recommends
|
|
Well that's the contention of some former and practicing, vegetarians and vegans in the Atlantic Monthly. Eating ...
by ban nock
243 comments
on Mon Dec 26, 2011 at 06:10 PM PST
with 19 Recommends
|
Recommended
- I just found out that some of our oldest (longest term) and dearest Kossacks have recently been laid off or resigned. Apparently It came up in the comments in the diary about the Second DK Site Maintenance with the recent update. I had no idea. I...622 comments 1160 Recs
- From The Detroit News: Lansing — Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney...46 comments 202 Recs
- I just want to say thank you from Ukraine to every US citizen and every friend of Ukraine all over the world who took action and made this critically needed military assistance package possible. Thank you for every call and email to your congressman,...24 comments 109 Recs
- Ukraine keeps up the pressure on Russian oil supplies. If you freeze the video at 0:03, I think you can see in the flames the appearance of Oil Terminal Jesus. Speaking of attacks inside Russia. Since when is it a crime in Russia to take bribes? If...87 comments 194 Recs
- Well, this guy, and I don’t know who he is calls out Trump’s bible and mixing politics and religion. I was reading and came across this on another site and felt it was sure worth sharing. I have been saying this for years. Separation of Church and...44 comments 113 Recs
- It’s long been obvious that Trump thinks he is above the law, that the law does not apply to him. This is clear in his ludicrous attempts to claim that being (or having been) president means he gets absolute immunity from prosecution, but that rests on...62 comments 147 Recs
- It doesn’t matter that the Republicans are having their convention in Milwaukee come July 15 — 18. Or that Mr. Walking Dead owns their nomination based on delegate count and winning primaries. Plain fact, here, is that Trump has been dead since April...187 comments 221 Recs
- Donald Payne has died, aged 65. He was known as one of the nicest Members of Congress. He represented the same district as his father, the first AA Congressman in NJ’s history, centered on Newark, with a part extending to Jersey City. The Governor can...21 comments 145 Recs
- In a move designed to thwart the efforts of anti-choice extremists in states who have banned abortion from accessing medical records of patients who travel out of state for reproductive healthcare, the Biden Administration has updated HIPAA rules to...72 comments 229 Recs
- Some people actually have escaped the Trump MAGA bubble. Not many. But some. Here’s one example: Ex-MAGA: I believed that Michelle Obama was a man. That Barack Obama was part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and worst of all that the Sandy Hook in 2012 was...52 comments 111 Recs
- Let’s not get too excited because the legislation still has to work its way through the Arizona Senate, but last week a couple Republican Senators did crossover to allow the bill to be heard there, so there’s that. But the good news today is that on...5 comments 25 Recs
- Hello, Peeps. Todayâs topic is a situation a few of us may have experience withâgetting a new woozle when one family member says no. But first, A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦146 comments 99 Recs
Recent Diaries
- In a White House statement, President Biden remembers the Armenian Genocide, honors those who suffered, and renews America’s pledge never to forget. The United States promises to stand up against hate, advocate for human rights, and ensure everyone can...4 comments 2 Recs
- Let’s not get too excited because the legislation still has to work its way through the Arizona Senate, but last week a couple Republican Senators did crossover to allow the bill to be heard there, so there’s that. But the good news today is that on...5 comments 25 Recs
- Netanyahu erecting tents in Khan Younis, a sign of a Rafah invasion - a red line for President BidenIn an ominous sign of yet another humanitarian crisis, Israel has begun to construct tents to house well over one million Palestinian civilians to be marched from Rafah to sites in Khan Younis so that Israel can root out Hamas in Rafah. Of course,...17 comments 25 Recs
- The NFL Draft begins in downtown Detroit tomorrow. The damage to the Rosa Parks Transit Center, not far from the NFL Draft stage, won’t be repaired by then. But after months of inaction, something was done today. Late July of last year, I noticed that...1 comments 3 Recs
- I just want to say thank you from Ukraine to every US citizen and every friend of Ukraine all over the world who took action and made this critically needed military assistance package possible. Thank you for every call and email to your congressman,...24 comments 109 Recs
- Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Todd Blanche had a disastrous show...1 comments 0 Recs
- Hey, when she’s right, she’s right. GET OUT THE VOTE � BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs ...7 comments 19 Recs
- I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...9 comments 30 Recs
- Some of us remember the killings at Jackson State and Kent State in 1970. We now remember that GOP calls for National Guard intervention on campuses is the variable that Trump manipulated to allow J6 to succeed. Fascist cosplay now increases because...17 comments 22 Recs
- So, now what? We have 6-8 more weeks of Trumps 1st trial. Then we have 50 more? Okay, maybe not 50. But Trump wasn't the only problem. What about Majorie Taylor Green? What about Matt Gates? What about Lindsy Graham? Mike Johnson, Kari Lake, Ted Cruz,...5 comments 10 Recs
- What will it take to end the nuclear nightmare that has gripped the world since the atomic bombings of 1945? For a time, that nightmare seemed to have abated for, in response to massive popular resistance to the prospect of nuclear war, governments...4 comments 5 Recs
- Helping Humpday is the Wednesday Street Prophets Coffee Hour. It was created for us by bfitzinAR and was taken over by Dixiecollie, who also left suddenly. Now it’s njm5000 who keeps the list of Kossacks in need. Helping Humpday is still here, the...15 comments 10 Recs
- Well, this guy, and I don’t know who he is calls out Trump’s bible and mixing politics and religion. I was reading and came across this on another site and felt it was sure worth sharing. I have been saying this for years. Separation of Church and...44 comments 113 Recs
- The patriarchy on SCOTUS lives on and must be busted. Biden got another important union endorsement. This Democratic strategist nails it. I see a landslide. Podcasts (Video — Audio) Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Live Calls:...3 comments 4 Recs
- The Supreme Court is hearing another abortion case. What could go wrong? It’s just people’s lives on the line. GOP lawmakers vote to arm teachers a year after Nashville shooting Protesters in the galleries chanted “blood on your hands!” Cartoon:...0 comments 1 Recs
- If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently...1 comments 5 Recs
- Through the US Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), President Biden’s Uniting for Ukraine program efficiently and uncontroversially resettled 187,000 Ukrainian refugees on American soil since Moscow’s brutal invasion of her western neighbor. This...4 comments 19 Recs
- The first criminal trial of a former American president has officially begun. And Donald Trump was at his place at the defendant's table as his friend and co-conspirator, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified that the two of them and...7 comments 18 Recs
- For what it is worth, Healing Soul Hypnosis describes mass hypnosis as where a massive part of the populace focuses on a leader(s) or series of events, with their attention focusing on a small point or issue. Followers appear to be under hypnosis,...12 comments 11 Recs
- I posted a photo of U.S. Air Force aggressor aircraft to Facebook. Friends were intrigued. I answered some of their questions in comments, but it's a subject worth exploring in more detail, and my ...3 comments 15 Recs
