Palin loves aerial hunting.

Of course the reality is..aerial hunting isn’t hunting..its morbid and its a painful death for the animal. Pass this around. I grew up in a family where we didn’t eat store-bought meat until I was 7 or 8. I know hunting and this ain’t fucking hunting. My republican father agrees and is appalled.

From the Defenders [...]

Excellent Essay

*Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for “The Vagina Monologues”, wrote the following about Sarah Palin*.
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. [...]

Spill Baby Spill!

I was at the NOAA website, getting updated on what is happening with Hurricane Ike, and came across this information….Month-long Response Continues for New Orleans Oil Spill

Progress Or Self Destructive Prolificacy?

The scene is the Harbor Freeway (SR 110) in Los Angeles, looking south, on the stretch between the Hollywood Freeway (SR 101) and the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10), in downtown Los Angeles (as viewed from the 7th Street bridge). What is remarkable is that the picture was made on or about June 1, [...]

Travelers’ Advisory: Brachylagus idahoensis

It was announced by authorities in the state of Washington that last week 20 mamalian life forms identfied as Brachylagus idahoensis, which are of the order Lagomorpha, and family Leporidae, left captivity and are roaming free in Washington state. Previously 8 of the animals were being held in Portland, Oregon, and 12 of the animals were held in Pullman, Washington.

a little light reading for the weekend

i am up to my eyeballs in boxes and packing and moving stuff- but i still have internet and my morning cuppa i like to read through my google reader when i get the chance- i have been mostly skipping newsy blogs because i don’t have time to read the same crap different [...]

Unbearable

This week the polar bear was designated as a species threatened with extinction, making the arctic bear the first creature added to the endangered species list, primarily because of global warming. A U.S. District Court in Oakland, CA, forced the Bush administration by imposing a May 15 deadline because it was supposed to have been [...]