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Entries from March 2007

News Roundup: “An Exceptionally Heavy
Spaghetti Crop”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 31st, 2007 at 11:56 pm

Here’s a little smorgasbord of items I wanted to blog this past week, and didn’t get the chance to. Because unlike spaghetti, time to blog doesn’t grow on trees!

John Nichols of The Nation asks whether we’re nearing an “Impeachment Moment,” noting that the I-word is finally being discussed — if not exactly embraced — on […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · Food · LGBT · Media · George W. Bush · Comedy · Activism · Factory Farming · Film · TV · Climate Change · Apple · iTunes · HIV · AIDS · Ricky Gervais · Health · Business · Corporations · Animals & Environment · UK/England · Video · Feminism

In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Chicago · Oobleck · Neo-Futurists · Poetry · Fringe · Performance · The Partly Dave Show · Even in Blackouts

Mia Farrow on Darfur, Divestment,
and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Activism · Film · Peace · Business · Corporations · Human Rights · Foreign Policy · Darfur

The Roosters of the Peace

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2007 at 1:56 pm


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Tags: Culture · Peace · Animals & Environment · Video · Nature

The Deep Dish Approach to Solar Power

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm


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Tags: News · Politics · Science · Tech · Climate Change · Animals & Environment · Solar Power · Energy

Music: Split Enz & Sparks

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 11:25 am


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Tags: Blogroll · Culture · Music · Blogs · New Wave · Performance · Cardy Pop · Split Enz · Crowded House · Neil Finn · New Zealand

Brzezinski on Iraq: Escalation Is “A Nonstarter.”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 11:04 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Media · Peace · Iraq · History · Harper's · U.S. Senate · Foreign Policy

Mandarin Dynamite!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 10:37 am


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Tags: Culture · Science · Food · Journal · Film · Animals & Environment

Seals, Global Warming, and the Canadian Seafood Boycott

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Science · Food · Activism · Climate Change · Animals & Environment · Humane Society of the United States · Greenpeace

News: The Hidden Cost of Margarine

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 27th, 2007 at 12:07 pm


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · Media · Climate Change · Internet · Superheroes · Comics · Performance · Ricky Gervais · Corporations · Animals & Environment · Software · Adobe · David Bowie

Doctor Who Fires Up the Tardis

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 8:13 am


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Tags: News · Culture · TV · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · Russell T. Davies

Last Week’s Three Best Video Kerfuffles

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:35 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Media · Film · TV · Climate Change · Iraq · Torture · Human Rights · Al Gore · Documentaries

The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am


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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Books · Neo-Futurists · Poetry · Performance · Lit · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Yoko Ono · Travel · UK/England · Ireland · Scotland · Celtic · History · Mythology · Arthur · Folk-Rock

Puck Soup: Wolfgang Puck Gets a Shiny New Conscience

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 6:07 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Food · Activism · Factory Farming · Health · Business · Corporations · Animals & Environment · Humane Society of the United States · Farm Sanctuary