A montage for the kids

Nothing is coming to mind as worth writing a post about, but there are several interesting little things floating around. So I thought instead of no update I would toss together these links.

Gavin Newsom sets an example: Newsom has issued an executive order banning San Francisco city departments from buying bottled water, even for water [...]

Who’s the bigger terrorist?

Last night I was watching an interview with Al Gore. He was discussing why he wrote his new book, The Assault on Reason. Here’s the handy blurb about that:
We are at a pivotal moment in American democracy. The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of [...]

Knowing is half the battle: 3.23

There’s a lot of interesting things going on this week. Here are just a few of them.
White house made 181 secret edits to 3 climate reports. Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of the changes he made were “to align [...]

Fascinating video of how black children view white children

“Kiri Davis is a young filmmaker whose high school documentary has left audiences at film festivals across the country stunned — and has re-ignited a powerful debate over race.”
Watch the video here, it’s only a few minutes long. I won’t describe the video she made to you, because that would be silly. It’s really interesting [...]

Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2007

Project Censored has published their top 25 censored stories of 2007. I’m not sure why it isn’t called the top 25 of 2006, but it’s not my list. Anyways, these are the stories the major media news companies downplayed or outright ignored. The full list with summaries is here: http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm. Recommended reading unless oblivious was [...]