http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Matt Corley has an interesting piece in Think Progress about Laura Bush's insistence that organic food be served in the White House whenever possible. This, in spite of the fact that husband George's policies on organic farming were, to put it mildly, abysmal. Consider: – In April 2004, Bush’s USDA issued legally ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2009/01/the-organic-bush/ Since the times of George Washington it has been the tradition of incoming presidents to hold a prayer service. This year it will be on January 21, the day following President Obama's inauguration, and be led by Rev. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). As ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2009/01/exciting-news/ With the news of a second coal ash spill, this time in Alabama, a lot more attention needs to be paid to the issue. Devilstower, writing in Daily Kos, has an important must-read personal account of fly ash in his home town. Devilstower concludes: Right now most of [the] cost is paid by the ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2009/01/the-other-stuff/ Annika Mengisen of The New York Times Freakanomics blog has this informative array of pictures from the Tennessee coal ash disaster, taken by a reader, Dorothy Griffith, a photographer who lives in Banner Elk, North Carolina, on Christmas Day. It's worth a look ...   UPDATE (January 8, 2009): Tennessee Republican Congressman ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2009/01/it-aint-no-santa-claus/ Dave Burdick of The Huffington Post has a solid review of the status of the Tenessee coal ash spill, and what comes next. Check it out ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/12/66/ In a case of truth over parody, it seems the McCain campaign is having a fire sale. Thanks to The Sleuth, Mary Ann Akers, at the Washington Post. http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/12/they-gotta-pay-for-sarahs-clothes-somehow/ The Honorable Barney Frank (D-Mass) on the need for President-Elect Obama to get more involved right now: [Obama's] going to have to be more assertive than he's been. At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time. I'm afraid ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/12/how-many-presidents-does-it-take-to-screw-in-a-lightbulb/ It's October 16, four months after same sex mariages resumed in California, and, yep, the state still exists, the world has not come to an end, the sun still shines, and all is well. http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/10/yep-still-here/ Back in 1988 when George Bush chose his running mate, I remember someone saying to me, "You know, of all the people of our generation that could could rise to be the cream of the crop, who'd have thought it would be Dan Quayle?" Oh, how quaint. And now, twenty years later, ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/09/where-are-you-dan-quayle/ Juan Cole has a very interesting comparison of Islamic fundamentalists and Sarah Palin in today's salon.com. The difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Sarah Palin? Lipstick and not much more. Check it out ... http://www.envirojustice.org/gregsworld/2008/09/sarah-the-fundamentalist/