Month: September 2010

Bees and climate change

Not busy bees. Real bees. Bees that pollinate many many flowering plants. Bees whose colonies are in decline worldwide. A new study suggests one possible reason: the life cycle of bees is out of synch with the time that the...

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Some Musings on Our Lucky History

Our tendency to gloss over the unspeakable carnage of World War Two and call it ‘The Good War’ is only partly explainable by the fact that we faced an undeniably evil set of enemies and that we defeated them...

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Why Americans Elect Awful Presidents

For years I muttered mentally to myself about the insanity of Americans electing George W. Bush president.  Now I go through the same agony about the craziness of the nation electing Barack Obama president.  As much as...

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Ignore the Republican Circus

Cross-posted at http://www.winningprogressive.org/ Over at Balloon Juice this morning, mistermix makes an excellent point that the circus-like atmosphere in today’s Republican party is a feature, not a bug in their...

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