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Amy Goodman, at Busboys & Poets, gives a great talk on independent media, tells some great stories, and asks every one to tell ten people in the next week about WPFW and wpfw.org.So I am.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Amidst the discussions of BP and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the issue of liability comes up. Apparently the current liability of any oil company for a spill in US waters is limited to $75 million by statute. The senate is trying to up that …

Virginia Tea Partiers Endorse Posting Periello’s Home Address, Insist They’re Not ‘A Violent Group Of People’:On Monday, Lynchburg Tea Party member Mike Troxel posted what he believed to be the home address of Rep. Tom Periello (D-VA), encouraging peop…

“High-fructose corn syrup causes characteristics of obesity in rats: Increased body weight, body fat and triglyceride levels”, published in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.02.012:In Experiment 1, male Sprague–Dawley ra…

Yes, I’m pretty sure that was “…this is a big fuckin’ deal”.You stay classy, Mr. Vice President.

(Video: Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem, The Parting Glass, February 1977, National Stadium, Dublin)One year when I was a kid, my brother and I got vinyl records for our birthdays. I was jealous, because he got The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, and all I …

“US court rules again against vaccine-autism claims”:Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines…

(Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP, from “The hockey sweater, White House style”)The hockey sweater, White House style:Four of us Canadians stood together in the White House briefing room this afternoon for the big moment.One wore a Canadian hockey jersey, …