the great opera bass paul plishka being honoured for 46-year singing career at the met on cbc. i appeared on stage next to him once (more)
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hoorah i just got my yellow pages. now i can look for that butter churn. now if i can just collect royalties from all the diet snake oil salesmen using my account… sorry for any spam tweets under my name. apparently i’ve been hacked. again. even though i changed my pw last time. wtf?
The tsunami that hit Japan was one of the saddest stories of 2011. But that was a natural disaster. Perhaps even sadder is the ongoing destruction, due to the decision made years earlier to go with nuclear power. This L.A. Times story quotes this poor farmer:
via Japan tsunami has dealt lasting blow to family farms – latimes.com. Jagrup’s blog – Apply for ‘Welfare’ day and already hungry http://t.co/QExf25Ay via @MLAonWelfare
People will tell you Los Angeles is all about the car. That’s partly true, and much of the problem, although they have been trying lately by building new transit lines and bike lanes. But the city-wide no-walking-zone rumours are not true. It turns out that politicians, voters and plenty of volunteers have managed to preserve a huge chunk of the city in the Santa Monica Mountains for future generations — and hikers today. Not all of the 8 million people living there know it, but there are more than 500 miles of hiking trails within the city.
I am always happy to receive email with a blog-link to the latest post from Ivan Doumenc because I admire his insightful and inspirational dispatches from the front lines of the salmon wars. Also because it’s a powerful story I don’t see/hear/read in the traditional media… maybe because there are some huge institutional players and lots of money on the other side. Oh you didn’t know there was a salmon war? salmon warriors: Our finest hour. The NY Times has an interesting debate going on about the use of technology to raise to raise crop yields in poor countries (in the Dot Earth blog run by Andrew Revkin which “which recently moved from the news side of The Times to the Opinion section”… a switch which used to mean something but now falls into the category of “whatever”). Don’t stop at the posts, though. If you read there alone, you might conclude: what’s wrong with more food? Who would want to stop a poor farmer from planting better seeds? Don’t hippies have anything better to do? And why are people picking on that nice corporation Monsanto? Continue to the comments section where more voices are heard, including some offering a bigger-picture, longer-term analysis with less impressive yields, more resource losses, less biodiversity, and the same corporation that gave us Agent Orange and Roundup dominating the future of farming. Nepal and Others Mull Monsanto’s Role in Advancing Agriculture – NYTimes.com. In Nepal, Farmers Struggle as City Dwellers Fight Monsanto oh. is that why my posts are falling short of the mark? “twitter api currently down.” ok. what’s an api? |
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