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Comment on What religion has contributed to the world this month – Episode 6 (April/May 2013) by Loewen James

Loewen James — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:40:54 +0000

Excellent, chilling and horrific. Thanks for bringing this series to my attention.

Comment on Representations of Gender in Advertising by N. Jade

N. Jade — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:10:23 +0000

Check out the Target: Women series on youtube (originally broadcast on Current). She brilliantly dissects gender in advertising.

Comment on I’m Back by Suzan

Suzan — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:15:27 +0000

I got some new to me high end film photography gear and I’m restarting my interest in an art form that some people thought would die as everyone went digital.

That and a couple of other projects, not to mention this being a really pretty time of year in the Dallas area for day long excursions in the real world away from the keyboard.

I’m also trying to get more physically fit with a bit of exercise and dieting.

I may plan out things better and schedule posts on weekends when I am planning to be away from the keyboard as there are art festivals and some swap meets we want to go to.

Comment on I’m Back by Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:18:02 +0000

I was wondering where my set of 11pm-midnight lefty leaning posts that I receive every night went. My inbox has never been the same without them.

Srsly though, welcome back.

Comment on 400 PPM by Angel

Angel — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:25:56 +0000

There are those who have suggested solutions to the problem of overpopulation… and they are demonized for it.

Speaking of glaciers, have you heard the latest news from Manitoba, where a wall of ice crashed into and destroyed several homes? Amazing!

Comment on 400 PPM by Suzan

Suzan — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:58:20 +0000

I have little faith in the “ingenuity of the human race” to accomplish much of anything that isn’t greed motivated and exploitative.

There are way too many of us to do anything but massively crash.

We are past peak petroleum, have depleted the water and the land. Glaciers are becoming nothing more than pictures in books.

The planet can naturally sustain fewer than one billion people and we are past seven and heading rapidly toward ten.

Comment on 400 PPM by Angel

Angel — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:34:33 +0000

Looks like I’m a bit behind on the science… the US government is already funding research into artificial photosynthesis to not only scrub the CO2 from the air, but to also to produce new fuel… http://solarfuelshub.org/

In fact, once I started googling “artificial photosynthesis”, I found lots of info on research being conducted by various entities. Most of it seems to be geared toward creating fuel that does not add to the CO2 already in our atmosphere, but instead recycles what is already there. It seems to me that such devices, aside from making fuel, could be used to simply lock the carbon up in a solid or liquid form for disposal… the important thing being to remove the excess from the atmosphere.

Hey, don’t underestimate the ingenuity of the human race. We are the species that harnessed the power of the atom to annihilate our enemies, gone to the moon to collect rocks, and create genetically engineered organisms in order to increase ag industry profits. There is nothing we cannot do… as long as there is a buck to be made..

Who knows, maybe it will be a high school student who finally comes up with a workable solution. Armed with computers and uncrippled by the idea that “it can’t be done”, young people are coming up with all kinds of bright ideas lately.

Comment on 400 PPM by Suzan

Suzan — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:27:05 +0000

Nope. There isn’t a scientific fix that permits us to go on living the same way we are living. We are burning hydrocarbons that have been bonded together for hundreds of millions of years and turning them into CO2. We have seven billion people on the planet and will soon have ten. After that we will have fifteen and total eco collapse.

Comment on 400 PPM by Angel

Angel — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:24:50 +0000

If scientists could only duplicate the process of photosynthesis on a large scale, then it could serve to remove much of the excess carbon dioxide from our atmosphere in a relatively short time. Plants basically use sunlight to combine the CO2 from the air with water to produce sugars and oxygen, so why can’t we build machines that do likewise but on a grander scale, thus scrubbing the air? With sugars as a byproduct of the process, such a machine might even be profitable.

Comment on Assembly Passes Bill to Aid Transgender Californians with Name Changes, Identity Documents by Edith Pilkington

Edith Pilkington — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:57:14 +0000

There are two things about this revised statute that are particularly good:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1121

1. “(A) There exists an overriding interest that overcomes the right of public access to the record.
(ii)
(B) The overriding interest supports sealing the record.
(iii)
(C) A substantial probability exists that the overriding interest will be prejudiced if the record is not sealed.
(iv)
(D) The proposed order to seal the records is narrowly tailored.
(v)
(E) No less restrictive means exist to achieve the overriding interest.

2. “the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate reflecting the person’s correct sex and name . . .”

It would be good to have a provision inserted that establishes liability for any entity which possesses information regarding a person’s transitional and pre-transitional history and releases it without the permission of the person, as well. The text of this bill makes it fairly clear that this involves a person’s medical history.