Archive for December 17th, 2008


The Weekly Carboholic: low carbon holiday ideas

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Brian Angliss under Business & Finance, Economy, Energy, Environment & Nature, Politics, Law & Government, Science & Technology, Weekly Carboholic [ Comments: 2 ]
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The holidays tend to be high-energy, high-waste, and thus high-carbon. The following sites have a number of ideas for those of you interested in reducing your carbon footprint this holiday season. Full story »


Photography: Solstice

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Dawn Farmer under Arts & Literature, Scholars & Rogues [ Comments: 12 ]

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Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Samuel Smith under American Culture, Education, Freedom, Health, Politics, Law & Government, Religion, Science & Technology [ Comments: 36 ]

In this season’s eighth episode, Boston Legal – the relentlessly liberal ABC dramedy starring William Shatner and James Spader – lobbed an absolute bomb at those of us on the pro-choice side of the Roe v. Wade question. The bunker-buster was posed, predictably enough, by Crane Poole & Schmitt’s resident conservative, the gleefully Republican Denny Crane, portrayed by Shatner. BL fans know Crane to be positively Cheney-esque in his politics (although he did finally cross the aisle to vote for Obama because even he couldn’t stomach four more years like the last eight), and he routinely plays the straw man for the passionate liberalism of Spader’s litigator par excellence, Alan Shore.

This time, though, Crane (who’s battling through the early stages of Alzheimer’s) breaks through to a moment of pristine, Emmy-worthy clarity. Full story »