I managed to catch the re-broadcast of CBC’s Q last night, where Jian Ghomeshi spoke (the first third of yesterday’s podcast)Â with Dave Zirin about the anti-immigration law, SB-1070, in Arizona, and reaction to it from the sports world, and Major League Baseball, specifically. It is really an interesting interview. Check it out…
Update: Stephanie Ernst posted quite a few interesting links, yesterday, on  Challenging Oppression. Check them out, too…
Apparently, early last week Douche-Bag extraordinaire, Rush Limbaugh, was at it again. Speculating that the explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig was the work of “environmentalist wackos.” I’ll refrain from the name calling, starting now that is, no matter how deserved I may think it is. And point to an article Will Potter posted Monday afternoon, Did “Eco-Terrorists†Cause the Gulf Oil Spill?, for some interesting context into the Right-Wing response(s) to this disaster;
“In many ways, Limbaugh’s comments are not extreme, they are the norm. Forty years after Earth Day, going green has gone mainstream, but corporations and the politicians who represent them are labeling environmentalists as “eco-terrorists.†The problem is not Rush Limbaugh; the problem is misplaced government “terrorism†priorities and scare-mongering that are natural fodder for political opportunists, no matter how untenable their claims…”
It would seem even the lunatic dick-bag fringe (oops, starting now) can be understood. Sorta…
With the oil leak, in the Gulf of Mexico — growing at an alarming rate of 800,000 litres each and every day — comparisons to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in Alaska, in 1989, are becoming more and more prevalent in the news. And for good reason. What with this being predicted, by some, to become the worst oil spill in history!
That said, will we learn from history? Or are we doomed to repeat it? Democracy Now interviewed Riki Ott, a first hand witness to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, yesterday. I highly recommend you check it out for some context into how BP is likely to handle this disaster.
Yesterday, I was of the mindset this — however tragic and sad it really is — would be just the thing that is needed to help us begin to change our ways. Or it has the potential to. But now I’m not too sure I think that way any more.
And if this doesn’t, there is nothing that will…
I spent the first hour of this Monday morning catching up with some of my most frequented places on the internets. But before I get involved with an absurdly technical issue, like how to get WordPress to display custom page titles from scratch, say, I thought I’d do some “light reading” elsewhere on the web.
When I came across an article, A Cow’s Milk is Not Yours To Take, that is much too powerful, and relevant, what with Mother’s Day approaching, and all, not to share;
“Everything done to a dairy cow is a stripping away of her essence. Her choice in a mate is denied, she is artificially inseminated. Her choice of when to mate is taken from her, she is “synched†to breed with the other cows in the herd. Nearly every single dairy calf is removed from his or her mother the day they are born. She is even denied motherhood. We must add insult to injury by taking control over her milk source, her udder. She is milked on our schedule and bred to produce the amount and type of milk we like. Then, in a cruel twist, we take her milk and use it for ourselves and our children. Milk that nurtures the growth of a frolicksome calf, milk that is given and received on a natural cycle of hunger and satiation, milk that is bovine, not human…”
I recommend reading it…