How can you tell if armor is any good? You field test it. You shoot stuff at it. You shoot a lot of stuff at it. Think Progress created a one-page timeline of GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act. After looking at the extraordinary degree the GOP went to undermine and/or kill the ACA, I came […]
I have spent considerable time building a list of negative incidents associated with circus elephants in the United States since 1800. Thanks to Google’s newspaper archive, I’m discovering several more to add to what is already a large list. Of course, sometimes the incidents happen in real time. Three circus elephants got loose and damaged two […]
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In comments to a story at Food Safety News, (Report: ‘Bycatch’ Blamed for Nine Dirty Ocean Fisheries Off U.S. Shores), about the distressing amount of bycatch associated with several fisheries, a commenter to the story wrote: Even if bycatch could be ended, which it won’t be, fishing would still remain a horrific agony for the […]
Think back on the last donation you made for a cause. Perhaps it was to the Natural Resource Defense Council to aid them in their court battle to protect the Palisades Interstate Park. Maybe it was the Sierra Club, to support its Clean Air Act lawsuit against a Montana coal-fired power plant, or to any organization or individual battling […]
I wrote a more recent story on this particular battle, after Johnson filed a lawsuit against the EPA via, who else? Pacific Legal Foundation. update March 22 A story in a local news station provides both video and photos of the “little pond”. That’s no pond, it’s a bloody lake. It has a dock. A […]