President McCain Would Not Have Done This

Call it desperation, or whatever, but I wanted to feel good about the President today, and so I'm happy to share this news. The tension between how things are and how I'd like them to be is pretty heavy, so I take some solace in even little things like this.

It Ain't Easy Being Green

[via LG&M]

I don't agree 100% with this op-ed, but I do think my well-intentioned friends sometimes miss the complexity of this issue. Just as some conservatives pine for the good old days without understanding the actual history, or the inapplicability of the past to current situations, my liberal friends are sometimes guilty of the same thing.

And I don't understand anything, which is why I outsource everything to other blogs/people. ;-)

We're Fracked

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a method of extracting oil and natural gas deposits from rock. In short, it involves injecting water, sand, and other things into rock to break it up, so as to allow for recovery of fossil fuels. The oil industry tells us it is safe and clean, and will provide all the energy we need for like eleventy billion years, and will also put and end to puppy death.