public funding of independent news media
We already fund the executive, judicial, and legislative branches through taxpayer funds. Why not fund the fourth estate as well? In this diary, I propose a way to make the news media independently...
View ArticleVA repub candidate Jerry Kilgore fined on day before election
Republican Governatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore was fined for deceptive advertising today. Democratic candidate Tim Kaine was fined for the same technique on friday. Jerry Kilgore's ad was much more...
View ArticleUnusual sentencing
Good Morning America had a story on a judge (Michael A. Cicconetti in Painesville, Ohio) who imposed unusual sentences. [Update: fixed link]
View Articleframing lesson from the movies (alternate sexuality)
Comparing two movies I watched recently gives so ideas about framing family values. The movies wereSummer Lovers and The Substitute Wife. The movies both dealt with the controversial topic of...
View ArticleTime Magazine: "by any measure earth is at ... the tipping point"
I saw the new (2006-04-03) issue of time magazine. One of the cover articles says that "By any measure earth is at ... the tipping point". Not in the text, mind you - that is the title of the...
View ArticleNuclear vs. Wind - Mining impact and Capital Cost
An anti-nuke organization recently posted a deceptive comment that implies that nuclear power is heavily dependent on mining while wind is not. I did the math and found that mining impact of nuclear...
View ArticleBP Deepwater Oil Spill Quantitative Data
This diary has been created as repository of Quantitative data relevent to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill as an adjunct to the Live Blogs and other diaries.THIS IS NOT A PLACE FOR MOST DISCUSSIONS...
View ArticleBP Oilpocalypse ROV Diary #62
This is no longer the current liveblog diary. The next in the series is BP Oilpocalypse ROV Diary #63You are in the BP disaster ROV, number 62. Number 61 is here. Please DO NOT Rec this diary,...
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