SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments for two same-sex marriage cases in March. On March 26, it has agreed to hear arguments as to whether the U.S. Constitution bars California from limiting marriage to unions of one man and one woman. They will also consider whether those defending Proposition 8 have the standing necessary to [...]
Private space entrepreneur and billionaire co-founder of PayPal, Elon Musk, is planning to build a small city on Mars for 80,000 space explorers – but only vegetarians are invited! He recommends the size of the new society should be around 80,000 people. “Too few, and the gene and culture pool dries up. Too many and [...]
Some rather unshocking articles in the Projo this morning (or the Urinal as my favorite local indie wags call it) RI Experiences Historic Decline in Population RI One of 2 States to Lose Population from 2011 – 2012 (The other is Vermont) Income is Leaving RI Faster Than the People Are Interesting to see if [...]
Not that it’ll do much good in the long run, but at least people are realising what a bunch of crooks these big corporations really are…Starbucks I imagine will quickly feel the pinch after calls for boycotts. There certainly isn’t much sympathy for any of them. And we have just heard that just as they [...]
There are some real reporters working for the HuffingtonPost site these days. Here is a link to a long, and very well written piece up today, Monday about the years-long chain of decisions by private developers, their customers, and local, state and federal officials, that set up the people of New York and New Jersey [...]
Okay, because I love gunnison (and most of the rest of you), if in a detached, wholesome, online kind of way, I actually subjected myself to an entire Thomas Friedman NYT piece for the first time in years—rather than just ramble on about polyamory or Guy Debord or whatever. Friedman starts: I JUST arrived in [...]
Lots of people have been bugging our esteemed bloggers to lay off the potus race for a bit and take a look at the congressional races. So far they don’t seem to be much inclined to do so. But with congressional approval ratings down the toilet, it’s still important. What is going on in your [...]
You never can tell about people. Don’t they do any research? Maybe it started back with Reagan using Springsteen’s Born in the USA rant against American foreign policy as his campaign theme song. Tom Petty had to write a cease and desist letter to the Bush campaign for using “I Won’t Back Down”, and another [...]
It seems like I’ve heard of Crouch End somewhere in life, but have no clue where it is (sumwhere in’t bloody sowth, innit?) or in what context I might have heard of it. No matter. Elaine was good enough to email me some snapshots she took of the hoopla surrounding the Olympic flame passing through [...]