| May 7, 2012 | Environment / HealthJoe Camel. Ronald McDonald. Tony the Tiger. Spuds McKenzie. Kid-friendly advertising tricks by corporations seeking to lure young consumers clutter the annals of marketing history. While some of these efforts are more insidious than others, they share a common trait....
| | Environment / HealthOil from tar sands Is our gripe; Hard to keep it In the pipe. Poor TransCanada. Everything looked so promising. The company had just finished drawing a line across Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Oklahoma, with hardly a peep of protest. The folks...
| Apr 23, 2012 | Environment / HealthSerious commentators are telling us not to assume that the Supreme Court is going to find “Obamacare” unconstitutional just because the conservative justices gave the government lawyer a hard time when the case came before the Court last month. Somehow...
| Apr 9, 2012 | Environment / Health“It’s certainly true,” declared Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, “that having Canada as a supplier for our oil is much more comforting than to have other countries supply our oil.” He was referring to the Canadian tar sands oil that...
| Apr 2, 2012 | Environment / HealthYes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and frivolous federal spending, because…well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous. So Congress has targeted unnecessary oil subsidies and frivolous tax giveaways to billionaires, right? Uh…no. Instead,...
| | Environment / HealthCoal and oil, Nukes and gas; All make bucks For the upper class. In some nations, electricity is actually generated and distributed by the government itself. In some countries, oil and gas production benefits everyone, not just CEOs. In my own city, we have two small...
