Book Review: Great American Hypocrites

Summary: An eviscerating critique of how the Republican party has won elections by obscuring actual issues with phony controversies, aided and abetted by a shallow and insipid media. At times Greenwald's denunciations are repetitive, but he provides more than enough infuriating examples to amply justify his evident anger. Glenn Greenwald's…

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Is nuclear power the solution?

An enthusiastic conservation effort, coupled with a wide variety of alternative sources of energy, will soften the blow of peak oil, but it might be too little too late.   And it's incredibly difficult to get people to actually do something serious about conserving energy (see Janisse Ray's "Altar Call for…

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On June 7, 2008 you can march to protest . . . the voluntary use of birth control pills . . . Huh?

The "American Life League" is putting out this silly garbage. They are trying to make it illegal for anyone to purchase birth control pills. This would put us back to the 1965 case of Griswold v Connecticut. Consider some of the this wacko group's talking points: Q: Is it OK…

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Don’t just stand there regarding climate change. Do something!

That's the message of Audrey Schulman, writing in Orion Magazine. Her article is entitled, "How to be a Climate Hero." Schulman describes psychology experiments where the subject is surrounded by stooges, everyone in the room doing a mundane task.  Eventually, something untoward happens. For instance, smoke starts pouring out of…

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