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Copper Mines Seeking to Pollute New Mexico Groundwater 27 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
The mining industry, conducting its usual anti-social, anti-environmental, and exploitative behavior, is pushing for new rules in New Mexico to escape having to go through a variance process to pollut...
The War On Women 27 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
Is winning all too many battles. It would be nice if the federal courts would respond to this by actually putting some teeth in the “undue burden” standard, but evidently it’s hard to be optimistic. ...
The Book Has an Anthem 27 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
Well, this is just awesome:
In Case You Needed Another Reason to Not Drink Yuengling 27 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
Yuengling owner Dick Yuengling, Jr. is an anti-union extremist who thinks Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is “a great man,” hates unions, and is leading the Keystone State fight to make the state ri...
Arkansas’ Anti-Tattoo Legislation 27 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m a member of the 1%: the one percent of Americans under the age of 40 who remains without a tattoo. So while I have no personal stake in the issue, the Arkansas bil...
The Eleventh Commandment of Graduate School: Be Nice to People! 26 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
Claire Potter has her Ten Commandments of Graduate School, all of which I recommend highly. Thou shalt not rack up unnecessary credit card debt. You may need to take out student loans to pay for thin...
Peak Water 26 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
If you don’t read Peter Gleick on water and the West, you really need to because he’s the most important journalist focusing on this vital issue. And if he says we have reached peak water, then we’ve ...
More USAF 26 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
Colonel Michael Bob Starr and I have gone another iteration on the Air Force. First Colonel Starr: Paradoxically, if the criteria for organizational independence are to have a distinct mission set an...
WaPo Budget Reporting 26 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Is still a massive disaster. (The bit about how we know the federal government it TOO DAMNED BIG because it employs more people than the population of Wyoming and North Dakota is an especially nice to...
Monopoly and the Single Tax 26 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
Now this is an interesting history of the boardgame Monopoly: Hardly cosmetic, the changes introduce a whole new animating ideology to a game created to critique, not celebrate, corporate America. Co...
