Watch "Heat"-- an excellent Frontline special on global warming

"Can Coal Be Earth-Friendly?" from the Program NOW:

David Roberts on "clean coal"

The reality is this, folks. Some politicians, fossil-fuel apologists, and petty-minded pundits say that we can't stop producing energy from coal, and that we can't quickly convert to electric cars. But the vast majority of scientists like Dr. Hansen say that as of 2008 we have about 10 years to do just that. We'd better tell these people to smell the coffee and change their tune, right now. We can't afford to lose our water and our food, nor our beautiful beaches and thousands of living species. And if you haven't got the message yet, then you need to inform yourself right now, and stop believing the lies put out by the fossil fuel companies and the right-wing conspiracy wackos. And whether or not you like Al Gore has absolutely nothing to do with this.

HERE is a good article that summarizes the climate change issue

The great race: Coal vs. the Climate by Ken Ward Jr.

Pew Research Center page on global warming science

Climate Change Science 101

Help, at Stop Global Warming.org

Home: popular new video on our endangered Earth

Isn't it time we woke up to the reality of guns in America?

Is is really "American" to let greedy and violent people do whatever they wish, in the name of "individualism" and the misguided ideological belief that "government is the problem?"

On April 20 1999, at 11:19 AM, the Columbine High School massacre began. Twelve students and a teacher were killed and twenty-five more were wounded. On April 16, 2007, at 7:15 AM, the Virginia Tech massacre began. Thirty-two students and teachers were killed and twenty-three more were wounded.

Those images are seared into our minds. Now there is a steady drumbeat of new images. New tragedies. The American Civic Association in Binghamton, N.Y. where thirteen people were murdered and four wounded on April 3, 2009. A paranoid young man in Pittsburgh who believed his guns were going to be taken away, killed three police officers and then himself on April 4. The list of killings and injuries by guns goes on and on. And what has the U.S. Congress done? Virtually nothing. For a decade.

The Columbine killers used two shotguns, an assault rifle and a TEC-9 assault pistol. All four guns went through sales at gun shows. A friend of the killers bought three of the guns for them from unlicensed sellers at a gun show. After the massacre, the friend stated that had she been required to undergo a Brady background check, she would not have purchased the guns.

Urge your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative to Close the Gun Show Loophole. Tell them our national policy should be: No Background Check, No Gun, No Excuses.

Contact the Brady campaign here for more info

Move on and other groups gather for health care rally. That's me (not looking too happy), standing around in the green backwards baseball cap (starting @4:05).

The Plague of Free-Market Ideology by E. Alan Meece

Learning From Europe by Paul Krugman

Lakoff on Congress' abdication of authority on Iraq

powerful Bill Moyers June 2005 speech on our sordid economic situation and grim future if Bush and Co. get their way, and what we can do

It's Tough Nowadays Being a Republican (22 basic self-contradictions)

Iraq Attack, by E. Alan Meece

War Issues including the Israel/Palestine issue and its solution

Environmental and other Domestic Issues

Election Watch: polls, results, predictions

Let the Golden Rule Overule the Rule of Gold, by Swami Beyondananda

Holistic Politics of Peace, by Marianne Williamson of Global Renaissance/Peace Alliance

Bringing God Into It, by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Red and Blue by E. Alan Meece

My Spin on the election disaster of 2004, by E. Alan Meece

Some pithy quotes