“When we all know the system, we’ll be even more eager to change it.”
HEADWATERS FOREST DEFENSE v. COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
“[Offending officers] are not entitled to qualified immunity because the use of pepper spray on the protestors’ eyes and faces was plainly in excess of the force necessary under the circumstances, and no reasonable officer could have concluded otherwise.”
Weathering Fights: Science - What’s It up to? (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) (by Comedy Central)
Lessig: “Buddy Roemer would be the only Republican candidate I’d vote for over Barack Obama.”
“Republicans have proposed opening more than 50 million acres of federal lands to logging, grazing and other uses… Bruce Babbitt, the interior secretary under President Bill Clinton, has described the Republican bill as ‘the most radical, overreaching attempt to dismantle the architecture of our public land laws that has been proposed in my lifetime.’”
We’re being left behind.
“Today the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released “Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health,” a comprehensive report that suggests what’s become a common refrain here and elsewhere: we all need to eat fewer animal products – not just meat, but dairy as well.”
“Choosing a sustainable fish for supper isn’t enough. … [T]he only way to deal with that threat is with strong international rules to end all unsustainable fishing.”
“… [D]eveloping countries, from Congo to Colombia[,][are] typically characterized by minimal taxes, high levels of inequality, free-wheeling businesses and high military expenditures. Any of that ring a bell?”
“[Tony Horton, the developer of the P90X fitness DVDs] is 52 years old — and probably buffer than you’ll ever be. * * * He rarely eats meat.”
“After all, if fish are off the menu, we will likely eat more beef, chicken and pork.”
I have an idea! Why don’t we eat less fish AND less beef, AND less chicken AND less pork.
“Iowa’s solution? Criminalize the whistleblowers.”
“When governors mock teachers as lazy, avaricious incompetents, they demean the profession and make it harder to attract the best and brightest. We should be elevating teachers, not throwing darts at them.”
“I’m going to cut to the chase. I think there are two basic rules, or maybe three, of diet: One is, eat as few animal products as you’re comfortable eating… . Two, eat less processed food… . The third is, whenever you can eat a plant, an unprocessed plant, you’re doing the right thing… .
“Does that mean become a vegan? I feel veganism is a target, and the closer you move toward it the better off you are. The fact that you never get there is not nearly as important as the fact you’re heading in the right direction… .
“I like the idea of a soda tax. I think [we should] start taxing something that is clearly ready to be demonized, as cigarettes were demonized, and starting to raise money while at the same time subsidizing supermarket chains willing to open in so-called food deserts… . .”
