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It’s one thing to want to save the rainforests. It’s another to take the time to find out why they are disappearing and work on the root causes. Often in developing countries the people may be fully aware that what they are doing is damaging things for the long term, but have no choice but [...]

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Thom on September 17th, 2011

The other day I posted about a bill in Congress that would make it a felony to misrepresent oneself online. Evidently there is still one small lick of sense in Washington, because this morning I found this update: Senators Al Franken and Chuck Grassley proposed new language for the bill (thanks in part to Kerr’s [...]

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Thom on September 15th, 2011

Warning: I’m feeling a bit snarky today. If you’re feeling snarky too, best move along down the interwebs. Remember that one guy, the “reporter” who moved in next door to the Palin family in Alaska while he wrote a book on them? The one that made Todd Palin decide to build a taller fence? He has [...]

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