Monthly Archives: April 2012

Legacy of Chernobyl (and Fukushima?)

April 30, 2012
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I have a Japanese friend who follows the worldwide news about the ongoing Fukushima Disaster. Yeah – ongoing. If you’re dependent on US news broadcasts, you probably don’t know much about it. Heck, the Japanese aren’t being told much about it. She posts multiple news reports daily to FB. My friend also studies the related stories from around the world. Like radioactivity in VT cows from Fukushima, and this photo essay about Chernobyl. If we were shown the truth about the long lasting effects of these disasters, about war, about industrial products… would we change them?   

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I Would Go to the Church Who Has This as Part of Its Creed

April 29, 2012
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I Would Go to the Church Who Has This as Part of Its Creed

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TSA Agents at Wichita Airport Terrorize 4 Year Old Girl

April 27, 2012
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TSA Agents at Wichita Airport Terrorize 4 Year Old Girl

Written by Tim Potter for The Wichita Eagle Michelle Brademeyer says Transportation Security Administration officers at Wichita’s airport treated her 4-year-old daughter like a terrorist. The TSA says its officers followed proper procedures, and the agency denies part of Brademeyer’s version of what happened around noon April 15 at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.

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Why Pot is Illegal

April 27, 2012
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Why Pot is Illegal

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Problem As I See It: vol 28

April 27, 2012
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Problem As I See It: vol 28

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See the birds – No tuppence required.

April 26, 2012
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Web cam of the Red Tail Hawks nest at Cornell University.   At this site you can toggle between the hawks and the Blue Heron nest.. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2422  

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Get the Lead Out

April 24, 2012
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Get the Lead Out

HERD ABOUT IT? by Ana Grarian  This spring I am enjoying nibbling on wild Garlic-Mustard, and invasive species that was brought to the US as a food crop. Apparently the same is true of Dandelions. I know several people who love dandelion greens. They are a bit too bitter for my liking, but then I have never tried cooking them. My husband’s mother loved them, and they are very nutritious. Garlic-Mustard was growing in the garden of our new place, and since I didn’t know what it was, I let it grow. When my landlord came by to drop off mulch, he told me it was a weed, and to pull it out, or it would take over.  I promptly did, and then investigated the plants that were growing wild in the woods across the street. They are quite tasty. A bit bitter, and variably hot depending on soil and rainfall. I like the flowers and the tender, top leaves best.

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Poop Matters

April 24, 2012
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Poop Matters

Poop dreams: A farmer on why we should care about manure By Enrique Gili on GRIST From time to time a book merits its title. Published in 2010, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind may just be the No. 1 book on the No. 2 business. In it, Gene Logsdon manages to be both funny and educational as he advocates for overcoming our aversion to excrement for the sake of healthy soil. According to Logsdon, we need manure and lots of it. He contends we should follow our nose for practical and elegant solutions to improving soil fertility, and turn waste into compost fit for crops and gardens. Gene Logsdon. (Photo by Ben Barnes.)

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EggStress

April 23, 2012
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EggStress

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Was Jesus Gay? Probably

April 22, 2012
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Was Jesus Gay? Probably

Written by Paul Oestreicher for Guardian UK I preached on Good Friday that Jesus’s intimacy with John suggested he was gay as I felt deeply it had to be addressed.   reaching on Good Friday on the last words of Jesus as he was being executed makes great spiritual demands on the preacher. The Jesuits began this tradition. Many Anglican churches adopted it. Faced with this privilege in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, my second home, I was painfully aware of the context, a church deeply divided worldwide over issues of gender and sexuality. Suffering was my theme. I felt I could not escape the suffering of gay and lesbian people at the hands of the church, over many centuries. Was that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday? For the first time in my ministry I felt it had to be. Those last words of Jesus would not let me escape. “When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, ‘Woman behold your son!’ Then he said to the disciple. ‘Behold your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.” That disciple was John whom…

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