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My last post referred to a study that suggested unhappy children become conservative. I finally got around to tracking the article down, and the content is much deeper than the above brief statement. The article (Ideological Animal, by Jay Dixit, Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2007) first refers to several studies on the personality traits of liberals and conservatives: MOST [...]

I read this fascinating piece by Cathy Haustein about shiny happy dutch children, where she drops this very interesting nugget [emphasis mine]: Here is the Child well being rank 1. Netherlands 2. Sweden 3. Denmark 4. Finland 5. Spain 6. Switzerland 7. Norway 8. Italy 9. Republic of Ireland 10. Belgium 11. Germany 12. Canada 13. Greece 14. Poland [...]

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The time has come for the Congressional Democrats to decide where they stand on the war in Iraq.  They talked a lot of anti-war Democrats to support their bill to fund the war but with a time table for withdrawal. Now that Bush has vetoed that - will there be a compromise? The Wisconsin Green Party [...]

Don’t know what more I can say about this! Great cause, great bar, great band. The Rain Dogs do Tom Waits covers - and do them very very well. Thursday May 3, 9 p.m. - ???  This is a fundraiser for the Winnebago Peace and Justice Center, located in Oshkosh, WI.

“Nobody puts baby in a corner”  The 1987 movie Dirty Dancing is celebrating its 20 year anniversary - and will be showing on the big screen in Appleton Wednesday May 2, 7:30 p.m. At the Regal College Ave 16 I am teased for liking this movie - so why not broaden the teasing? Come on. I’m taking this [...]

How big is your ecological footprint? Take this short test to find out (takes a minute or two). I went from four planets to three by taking on three more room mates this summer.

I can’t say much more than his obituary other than that Bob has been the Wisconsin Green Party’s Corresponding Secretary out of Madison for many years up until his sudden and unexpected death this week. I saw him in Madison a few weeks ago and he was smiling and full of energy. He will be [...]

While our housing market is on the cusp of collapse (tell that to the post-agricultural subdivisions) there is potentially “hot” property a mere 20 light years away. American “flight” from problems has led to agricultural land destruction due to lucrative subdivisions based on a commuter culture. With Peak Oil on the horizon those days may [...]

The Rapture of the Bees People are starting to freak out about the major catastrophe striking the bee world. Around 600,000 bee colonies have vanished recently, tens of billions of bees, for no apparent reason. They call it “hive collapse”, or “Colony Collapse Disorder”, but basically the bees fly off for nectar in the morning and never [...]

In Iowa, bills creating Public Financing of Elections are working their way through the state legislature. SF 553 has made it out of the Senate State Government Committee and is now in Appropriations. The bill, nicknamed VOICE (Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections), is based on the Arizona and Maine Clean Elections laws. Candidates collect a specified [...]

The last seven days have seen a great deal of bloodshed around the world. Wednesday April 18 - Baghdad: 112 people killed when a parked car bomb exploded in a crowd of workers. Wednesday April 18 - Sadr City, Iraq: at least 30 died when a suicide car bomber crashed into a checkpoint.   Wednesday, April 18 - Kano, Nigeria: 25 killed [...]

April 18, 2007 is the National Day of Silence. The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday. In it’s 11th year, the Day [...]

Don Ho passed away last Saturday at the age of 76. You may not care. For me, Don Ho has been walking with me for over 15 years since I first bought a Don Ho CD in Seattle in the early nineties. Don Ho was a house favorite, and when me and my buddy Tim Fuhrmeister [...]