2 items about news stuff
Aug. 12th, 2009 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowsculptureInteresting segment on yesterday's Democracy Now, about the drug war in Mexico. Their guest, journalist Charles Bowden, did a great job connecting U.S. drug policy with the human rights situation in Mexico. This piece struck me as a prime example of what alternative news outlets do best.
Second, I bitch at my senator enough to be on his mailing list, and there was a line from his latest email blast that made me smile: Talking about building up Nevada's clean energy industry, he said "Our solar, wind and geothermal resources can provide jobs for generations of Nevadans..."
That's a really pretty way of saying how much blazing hot, wind-blasted, uninhabitable wasteland is just outside our back door, here in Nevada. I get a kick out of seeing that become a precious resource, all of a sudden.
Second, I bitch at my senator enough to be on his mailing list, and there was a line from his latest email blast that made me smile: Talking about building up Nevada's clean energy industry, he said "Our solar, wind and geothermal resources can provide jobs for generations of Nevadans..."
That's a really pretty way of saying how much blazing hot, wind-blasted, uninhabitable wasteland is just outside our back door, here in Nevada. I get a kick out of seeing that become a precious resource, all of a sudden.