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News Roundup: Amber Waves of Tainted Grain Edition

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Doctor Who, Food, Foreign Policy, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Supreme Court, TV

Bush thinks he has the right to “attach conditions” to the Supreme Court’s ruling on greenhouse gases. Bush also said China and India must get on board the international effort to combat global warming. “Unless there is an accord with China,” he said, “China will produce greenhouse gases that will offset anything we do in […]

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News Roundup: Supreme Court, Python,
and Gromit Edition

April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Apple, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Film, Fringe, Health, Human Rights, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, Nature, Neo-Futurists, News, Politics, Supreme Court, Torture, Travel, TV

The Supreme Court rules that the EPA has the authority — and the responsibility — to regulate greenhouse gases. Carl Pope of The Sierra Club says: “Today’s ruling is a watershed moment in the fight against global warming … The ruling is a total rejection of the Bush administration’s refusal to use its existing authority […]

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Music: Split Enz & Sparks

March 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogroll, Blogs, Culture, Music, New Wave, Performance

Ooh, I think it’s high time for another musical interlude, before Ocelopotamus goes into New Wave withdrawal. We don’t want the Ocelopotamus getting antsy, hissing and splashing around in some kind of hypo-wave-onic panic and scaring the crocodiles. In fact, let’s start off with a welcoming doff of the cap to all of Ocelopotamus’s new […]

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News: The Pleasure of the Preznit

March 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogroll, Blogs, Books, Business, Chicago, Culture, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Music, News, Politics, Science

• Preznit Bush is stonewalling and hurling threats of a constitutional showdown over subpoenas. Ocelopotamus say: Call. His. Bluff. If he refuses to obey the rule of law, commence the impeachication. Meanwhile, over at Crooks and Liars, we read this: President Bush kept making the point over and over that allowing his staff members (i.e. […]

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Heaven Help Us All

March 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Heaven Help Us All · Blogs, Journal, Meta

I am officially giving up. Throwing in the towel. Yes, it’s true: I am abandoning my difficult four-year struggle to not blog. I do not do this thing lightly. I know that it’s ridiculous for someone as overextended as I always am to even think about starting a blog. That’s what’s kept me from diving […]

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