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On Troy Davis
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 21 at 8:46:05 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6reI said this over at Google Plus and realized I should bring it over here.
As those of you who remember reading my old post (linked here) will recall, the issue of Capital Punishment is less abstract for me than I wish it was.
I understand the
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Why I’m not voting for Obama in 2012
By Chris Clarke on 2011 08 15 at 5:18:14 pm | 65 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9beOr at least not unless he changes from who he is today.
The first time I voted in a Presidential election was in 1980. I wasn’t going to. Carter had disappointed me, responding to criticism that he wasn’t warlike enough by ramping up the
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Wolf Update: Help the groups that stood firm
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 28 at 11:03:19 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3bdInteresting discussion going on in the wolf post comments, with several people who know more than I do holding forth instructively — and one person who knows remarkably less than I do as well. It’s funny: as that commenter, “K,” was accusing me of
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The Further Adventures of Gang Green
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 23 at 11:41:54 pm | 13 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x75cLast week ten green groups signed off on delisting the gray wolf in Montana and Idaho.
The ten – let us name the names – were Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance,
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Quote of the day: Emma Goldman
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 07 at 11:32:18 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4Wc
… (continues)But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless
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Quick Thoughts on Food and Class: There’s A Piece Missing
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 01 at 5:46:11 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3NcThe Fat Nutritionist has posted an interesting article here – to which I was directed by way of one of Maryn McKenna’s tweets du jour – on the seemingly intractable divide between the Better Food movement (a name I just made up) and social welfare
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30 different ways to say “I’m a big honking jerk” on the Internet
By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 19 at 10:10:21 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0Ec(A non-exhaustive list.)
- “tl;dr”
- “Wow, someone certainly has a lot of time on their hands.”
- “When progressives form firing squads they stand in a circle.”
- “Whatever happened to personal accountability?”
- “I know it’s not politically correct to say
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Feeding the bighorn
By Chris Clarke on 2011 02 15 at 11:55:44 am | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2BcSomething I knew even before moving here was that the local trails have ardent defenders. A recent land exchange, for example, between the BLM and the local Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians had trail user groups up in arms; the land at issue
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Let’s be reasonable
By Chris Clarke on 2011 01 08 at 8:46:15 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1kcIt’s far too soon to attribute motives to the attacker. In the meantime, both parties have an obligation to refrain from … (continues)
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Sometimes I hate being right
By Chris Clarke on 2011 01 06 at 10:34:08 am | 3 commentsAn article on the Mother Jones site takes Obama’s administration to task for failing to protect endangered species:
… (continues)Obama is barely beating Bush at protecting new endangered species—and he’s far behind his Democratic predecessors. So far, his
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A Native response to solar sprawl
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How you can help save Ivanpah — a concrete action
By Chris Clarke on 2010 08 25 at 2:49:10 pm | 20 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x4qbThe California Energy Commission has indicated that if they get more public comment on their proposed decision to approve the Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System, they may have to delay their decision.
I can’t stress how important even a short
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Three Americans still held in Tehran’s Evin Prison
By Chris Clarke on 2010 08 05 at 7:22:45 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8db
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My colleague Shane Bauer (pictured), along with his fianceé Sarah Shourd and their friend Josh Fattal, have been held illegally in an Iranian prison for 370 days as I write this. As the website freethehikers.org says, the news reports about their -
CEC 2 FTHL: FOAD
By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 28 at 10:00:14 am | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x07
FTHL: SOL. Tom Budlong photo
Friends who have intervened in the permitting process for the proposed Solar Two site at Ocotillo, California, which would replace old-growth desert habitat for flat-tailed horned lizards with industrial power
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Carly Fiorina is a lying, anti-environmentalist sack of crap
By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 05 at 12:27:48 pm | 1 commentVia On The Public Record, Mike Taugher, the Contra Costa Times’ environmental reporter, has a great piece on Carly Fiorina — the rich incompetent wingnut now trying to replace Barbara Boxer as senator from California — and her attempts to blame
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July 4 2006, Central Valley CA
By Chris Clarke on 2010 07 03 at 12:54:17 pm | 6 comments[Way back in the first decade of the 21st Century I was briefly a guest-poster over at Michael Bérubé‘s joint, and during that period in which Michael had inexplicably entrusted me with his readership I posted this as a July 4 travelog-essay. I was
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Oh, the irony
By Chris Clarke on 2010 06 06 at 5:05:10 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6w
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The Cross thief speaks
By Chris Clarke on 2010 05 13 at 9:00:43 am | 9 commentsMorongo Bill and Scott Fajack have alerted me to a new development. Looks like I may have spoken unfairly as to the character of the person who took the Sunrise Rock cross from its site in the Mojave National Preserve. The Barstow Desert Dispatch
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The Mojave Cross
By Chris Clarke on 2010 04 28 at 9:33:27 am | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3t
The boxed-up cross on Sunrise Rock, Mojave National Preserve. Photo by Florian Boyd.
As far as I can determine from reading the decision [PDF], and contrary to what’s being widely reported today in the case of the Mojave Cross on Cima Dome, the
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Obama administration grants ESA protection to front half of polar bear
By Chris Clarke on 2010 04 01 at 1:24:42 pm | 7 commentsWashington, DC April 1, 2010 — In what many Democratic strategists are hailing as a pragmatic political masterstroke, the Obama administration today announced that it would be granting full Endangered Species Act protections to the front half of
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