Dr. Martin Luther King on today’s anti-union effort
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Leonard Pitts, Jr. has an opinion republished in the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. Dr. King had words for today's anti-union effort: Advertisement On Monday, it will be 43 years since that man was shot from ambush and killed in Memphis, Tenn. Martin Luther King's last public actions were in defense of … Read more
April 4th
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I still remember as if it was yesterday. My mind goes back in time to that day every time I hear the lyrics: Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride YouTube – U2 "Pride (In … Read more
The Rising: ‘There is going to be a backlash’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The concerted effort by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its coterie of right-wing think tanks and newly elected Tea-Publican governors to destroy unions has proven to be overreaching on a grand scale, with far-reaching unanticipated consequences about to befall Tea-Publicans. The heavy-handed tactics by Tea-Publicans, reminiscent of the corporate “bully-boys” Pinkerton … Read more
About U.S. nuclear reactors and spent fuel
by David Safier Russell Lowes, who I go to with all my questions about nuclear power, posted an information-packed comment on my most recent post about the problems at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. I've reprinted Lowes' comment below. We have Fukushima-type General Electric Mark 1 reactors here in this country too. And we have … Read more
America has saved more energy than you might think. YOU are saving more energy than you might think.
The improvement in energy efficiency since 1973 has saved more energy than all the additional energy expansion since that year. This will continue on into the future, and negate the need for additional power plants and oil consumption for transportation and more.
Mark Twain on religious intolerance
by David Safier The recent Koran burning by Terry Jones and the killing of UN workers by enraged Afghan Muslims in reaction led me back to one of the finest statements on religious fanatism and intolerance I have ever read, in Mark Twain's essay, "The Lowest Animal." Most people have heard the most famous quote … Read more
The Fiesta Bowl Scandal and Russell Pearce
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The news that a number of Arizona politicos may have improperly accepted gifts and illegal campaign contributions broke this week with the release of a report from the Fiesta Bowl investigating its own practices. The investigators examined a number of campaign finance reports looking for contributions from Fiesta Bowl … Read more
