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Fracking logic


11 August 11 07:32 AM
According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, fracturing fluids typically contain about 90 percent water, about 9 percent propping agents like silica sand and less than 0.5 percent chemicals. International Business Times , Read More...
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Redemtion song


01 August 11 06:32 PM
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley We're at that point now. We were at it once before in my lifetime. I know what fresh bread baked from wheat ground by my hands tastes like. I know what blueberries Read More...
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Why I'm marching next week. Hope you join us!


22 July 11 01:13 PM
If you want to see, you need to sit still. Still enough, for long enough, to be part of what is. Be still and know. You will know what it means when you get there--but first you have to sit. Still. This is my Auntie Beth's pond, not mine. *** I've gotten Read More...
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Independence Day


04 July 11 08:12 PM
"...[A]t the length truth will out." I love the Fourth of July. Today we feasted on the first local tomatoes, a completely different beast than the imposters sitting on your grocery shelves. I ate a peach that grew less than two miles from here, its impossibly Read More...
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Perennial projects


30 April 11 11:05 AM
At the start of the school year, back when the sunlight was fading and squirrels were fattening up, each student picked a tree to watch. Call it phenology, call it botany, call it whatever you want, but it's really just observing, and few of us do that Read More...
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"Four legs good, two legs bad!"


13 April 11 12:18 PM
"The only reason to oppose these bills is if you believe the status quo is acceptable." Governor Christie, announcing proposed legislation for teacher evaluation Parse that sentence. Tell me if it makes sense. Maybe he got misquoted--these things happen. Read More...
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Thoughts on Wisconsin, labor unions, and democracy


19 February 11 08:39 AM
Before I don my asbestos underwear and jump into the fire, understand that anyone paying attention can see some ominous trends once you peek behind the curtain. Mountains of assets are being sucked up by the unfathomably wealthy, too few Americans grasp Read More...
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An American rant


29 December 10 04:29 PM
In that land the great experiment was to be made, by civilized man, of the attempt to construct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hitherto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spectacle for which Read More...
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"Meaningful careers" or meaningful lives, Arne?


21 November 10 10:56 AM
This year New Jersey requires incoming freshman to pass an end of course biology exam before receiving a diploma. In theory, this is a wonderful idea. As an added bonus, it protects my position. The state has decided that competency in biology matters Read More...
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Bill Gates the Third: Póg mo Thóin


13 July 10 05:41 PM
I have an unhealthy (and perhaps unnatural) dislike of oligarchs. Bill Gates plans to leave $10,000,000 to each of his children because he "doesn’t want to leave them the burden of tremendous wealth." Read that again. S-L-O-W-L-Y.... Mr. Gates the Third Read More...
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Throw away your television


03 July 10 06:55 AM
Young children, 2 to 5 years old, spend over 3 1/2 hours a day in front of televisions. Preschool children need about 12 hours of sleep a day, so figure a healthy child has about 12 hours a day to earn about ants, water, people, and play. 30% of their Read More...
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