Our Sister City
Port Huron must be our new Sister City. This is a sewer grating from the new parking lot next to the Observer. I’ll have to check the south lot and see if we have Port Huron sewer tops over there, too. I’m glad to they’re made by the East Jordan foundry. That’s always been my favorite maker of sewer gratings.
Posted in It's life.
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By Green
– April 19, 2012
Feathers
Posted in Animal World.
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By Green
– April 15, 2012
Paper airplane journey
Posted in It's life.
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By Green
– April 13, 2012
Gasoline entitlement
Now that Michelle Bachmann is no longer running for President, we aren’t going to get her promised $2 a gallon gas. What did she have in mind, anyway? Was she going to nationalize the oil companies and fix the price?
Of course you have heard this story before – gasoline is “cheap” here compared to most of the world – but a reminder is always good. Here’s something from journalism professor Justin Martin in Maine:
In middle-income Turkey, for example, a gallon of gas costs upwards of $10. Impoverished Eritreans pay about the same. A friend of mine in Tel Aviv tells me a gallon there fetches about $8. A gallon of petrol in the United Kingdom was up around $8.40 a gallon in March, an all-time high.
High gas prices have persisted for years in other countries. Americans have been accustomed to much lower prices, which makes the current spike a rarity and the cause for coverage and complaints.
Some perspective is in order. Journalists should reinforce the reality that our driving habits influence high prices, that our global neighbors pay a lot more than we do and that as a country we have to stop perpetuating the myth that we are entitled to low gas prices.
Posted in Econo.
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By Green
– April 13, 2012
Caine’s Arcade
Here’s your “feel-good” video for the weekend.
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By Green
– April 13, 2012
Poetry Month
Knopf-Doubleday celebrates Poetry Month with a poem a day. This piece by Mark Strand, they say, isn’t quite a poem but neither is it not a poem:
The Triumph of the Infinite
I got up in the night and went to the end of the hall. Over the
door in large letters it said, “This is the next life. Please come
in.” I opened the door. Across the room a bearded man in a
pale-green suit turned to me and said, “Better get ready, we’re
taking the long way.” “Now I’ll wake up,” I thought, but I was
wrong. We began our journey over golden tundra and patches
of ice. Then there was nothing for miles around, and all I could
hear was my heart pumping and pumping so hard I thought I
would die all over again.
Posted in Verse.
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By Green
– April 11, 2012
Titantic photos
Here’s a collection of Titantic photographs and a lot of associated information.
Posted in It's life.
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By Green
– April 11, 2012
Wind map
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg say this actually an art project. More information here.
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By Green
– April 11, 2012
Gov. Kasich talks climate
When Ohio Gov. John Kasich talked recently about his energy policy, he said this:
“This isn’t popular to always say, but I believe there is a problem with climates, climate change in the atmosphere,” Kasich told a Ross County Republican function on Thursday. “I believe it. I don’t know how much there is, but I also know the good Lord wants us to be good stewards of his creation. And so, at the end of the day, if we can find these breakthroughs to help us have a cleaner environment, I’m all for it.”
This is considered a rather startling comment in contrast to what’s being said by many other GOP politicians. Rick Santorum, for example, call climate science “political science.”
Posted in Enviro.
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By Green
– April 11, 2012
The misinformation channel
Contrarian won’t like me picking on Fox News again, but here’s Chris Mooney’s review of studies regarding TV news viewers. He starts off writing about Jon Stewart’s discussion with a Fox host and says this:
There probably is a small group of media consumers out there somewhere in the world who are more misinformed, overall, than Fox News viewers. But if you only consider mainstream U.S. television news outlets with major audiences (e.g., numbering in the millions), it really is true that Fox viewers are the most misled based on all the available evidence—especially in areas of political controversy. This will come as little surprise to liberals, perhaps, but the evidence for it—evidence in Stewart’s favor—is pretty overwhelming.
Posted in It's life.
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By Green
– April 11, 2012
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