Category: Politics
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Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust, 1987 on CBS / Columbia
Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie, and Martin Rotsey are the core of Midnight Oil, the politically earnest band from down under. This was their sixth full length (the band started all the way back in the 70s and released their self-titled debut in 1978), but it was their breakout album in the US, with…
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UB40, Self-Titled, 1988 on A&M
Ub40’s eighth studio album, released in the US on A&M (It was on DEP International in the UK). Includes the Dusty Springfield cover “Breakfast In Bed” with Chrissie Hynde. At this point they were mega stars, not the early political unknown band I’d loved in the early 80s, but I still think this album sounds…
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Monday, May 27th, 2019
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A little “light” vacation reading
A little “light” vacation reading
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Androgynous
(via Stereogum) And they love each other so, closer than you know . . .
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Saved By the bell hooks
(via BoingBoing) Saved by the bell hooks is a brilliant tumblr combining the bell hooks and Saved by the Bell.
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History of Man in 3:30
Great animation from Steve Cutts. MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world. facebook.com/SteveCuttsArt twitter.com/#!/Steve_Cutts www.stevecutts.com
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Veganism and Attention Science: Seeing the Gorilla
Cathy N. Davidson’s new book, Now You See it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform thw Way We Live, Work, and Learn (see my review on Open Parenthesis), takes one of its core inspirations from an experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, which you may have seen.
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Nuf Said?
in a symbolic move today, House members from both parties read the Constitution aloud on the House floor (NPR) Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Further: NewSouth Books’ upcoming edition of Mark Twain’s seminal novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will remove all instances of the…
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The Great Income Shift
(via Economist’s View) Some very interesting data from the Congressional Budget Office and analysis by Chuck Marr the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities describing the shift in income since 1979. The bars represent the difference between what actually happened (the real income distribution in 2007) against what would have happened had the income distribution…
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Simpsons Intro by Banksy
(via BoingBoing) Banksy directed intro to the Simpsons. The good stuff comes in about 0:36 in, so don’t miss it. Wonder what 20th Century Fox thought of that one? Would have been a fun production meeting to be a fly-on-the-wall for.
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New Web Resources
Just a quick pointer to two new recently updated web resources useful for vegans and people who’d like to be vegan. The first is brought to you by the good doctors at Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PMRC). It’s a 21 day “kickstart” program starting January 1st, 2010. The Kickstart program includes daily messages, breakfast,…
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Carnism as an ideology
Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal…
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Save that One, Screw the Rest?
It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in the first place. This week, Molly (so named by…
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Antibiotics usage in Factory Farming
Interesting that this appeared in the Huffington Post just before the H1N1 stories starting popping up: Enemies of the People, by Carl Pope. In it, he describes the efforts of Louise Slaughter (we’ll ignore the irony of her name) to pass legislation in congress to “ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock.” The issue?…
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Swine Flu and Factory Farming
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory farming (and animal agriculture in general) makes to these superviruses. Here’s video from CNN with Dr. Michael Greger from the HSUS: Embedded video from CNN Video Related…
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The First Dog
This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred dogs myself, but no, I wouldn’t get another dog from a breeder. Our next family member will be from a shelter or a rescue, it might even…
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Does One-Click Activism Work?
Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective? You’ve almost certainly seen one-click activism: you get an email, click on a link, and send a pre-written message to a pre-selected legislator or other politician. It’s activism made…