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Marcus and his too-smart-for-their-own-good punk friends are in the wrong place at a very wrong time — the destruction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge by terrorists. They get picked up by Homeland Security, taken to a secret detention facility, and abused. This experience focuses Marcus’s teen rebellion and, upon his release, he [...]

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I try not to talk about politics much in this blog, unless it has to do with a book I’ve read, or books in general, or libraries, or geekiness. I try to stay on-topic. (But look at the image there! How on-topic is that?!)
I care about politics, though. A whole lot. [...]

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From the (Environmental Protection) Agency’s Earth Day history page:
EPA was born in 1970 - a time when rivers caught fire and cities were hidden under dense clouds of smoke. We’ve made remarkable progress since then in protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment.
Remember 40 years ago, when life was like a science fiction movie? [...]

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I finally finished Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which he traces four meals - fast food, industrial organic (a la Whole Foods), local organic, and hunted/gathered by himself - from their origins in fields and factory farms to his table. I don’t say this very often - in fact, I’m not sure I’ve [...]

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Most of the activism I try to get people involved in seems like pushing against an unmoveable tide - the sort of thing where even if we, say, actually build Cape Wind, it’s only a drop in the bucket of the problem of renewable energy. An important drop, but still.
This, though, is just stupid, [...]

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