For the fifth straight year, a huge dead zone has appeared off of the Oregon Coast. Although scientists aren’t able to conclusively determine the cause, the evidence points to global warming and deep changes occuring in Earth’s oceans. There is an excellent video from LinkTV which explains the science of what is currently happening to [...]

Well, the push pollers are at it again. Patty Jo became a recipient of the latest sleaze survey last night, and she was so pissed off, she hung up before finding out who the target was.
The caller asked her about her voting choices in a number of recent ballot measures, all of them right [...]

I dreamed cousin Evo
came down from the mountains
carrying a single red rose
clasped firmly in his fist
and beside him walked the ghost of Che
and the ghost of El Libertador
   and the ghosts
of the children
   of the mothers
      of the disappeared
and behind those
came the spirits
of the vanquished gods
Inti and Mama-Quilla
Pia and Makunaima
Kulimina and Kururumany
Ixchel and Votan
Yurakon and Jaluka
Selu, the corn [...]