Archive for February 9th, 2012


WordsDay Special: 25+ Books in 30+ Days (Double-Overtime)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Chris Mackowski under Arts & Literature, Environment & Nature, History, Leisure & Travel, World [ Comments: none ]

Last batch. My exam begins in the morning. Three more books: a battlefield, a beach, and Burma. Full story »


Steve Milloy is still a fact fighter for hire

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Brian Angliss under Environment & Nature, Health, Science & Technology [ Comments: none ]

In an article titled “Syngenta’s Paid Third Party Pundits Spin the “News” on Atrazine,” the Center for Media and Democracy’s (CMD) PR Watch revealed that Steve Milloy, editor of JunkScience.com, had been hired to PR outreach through both his “National Center for Public Policy Research” and his “Free Enterprise Education Institute.” CMD acquired sealed court documents from a lawsuit against herbicide manufacturer Syngenta that show Milloy asking for a $15,000 grant in 2004 and invoicing Syngenta for $25,000 in 2008.

Another sequence of emails shows two Syngenta employees talking about how Milloy was going to do his “weekly column” on the book “Poisoned Profits” and getting Milloy some talking points: Full story »


Dems’ super PACs, trailing in money race, to coordinate fundraising

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dr. Denny under Business & Finance, Crime & Corruption, Journalism, Politics, Law & Government [ Comments: none ]

The law forbids super PACs — political action committees permitted to raise unlimited funds with little disclosure of donors — from coordinating their activities with those of candidates’ formal campaign committees.

But, it seems, nothing prevents super PACs from coordinating their fundraising activities with each other. And this comes with the blessing of the Democratic fundraiser-in-chief.

From a report by Peter Stone of the Center for Public Integrity comes this tidbit:

Five Democratic super PACs are reaching out to party mega-donors, in a fledgling effort seeking $1 million to $10 million contributions, now that President Barack Obama has blessed the outside spending group working to get him re-elected.

And the reason? Stone reported in January that Democratic super PACs and nonprofits, formed last year, had only raised about $19 million.
Full story »


S&R Poetry: Three Poems, by Arhm Choi

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Poetry under S&R Literature, S&R Poetry [ Comments: none ] 

Train Flowers
 - for my father

Flowers are the only things we can cut
away from a body, put in water,
and watch open slowly.

Today the subway is blasted full
by bouquets smearing their tongues on cheeks
and brushing against buttons to be pushed
only in emergency.

Imagine the vases, the arms,
crooked, black, yellow, young,
they are going to. Full story »

“How Much Is That Election In The Window?” – M.O.C. #115

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Lee Camp under American Culture, Crime & Corruption, Politics, Law & Government [ Comments: none ]
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