Morning No: Sabotage-Related Program Activities

by: Natasha Chart

Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 06:00

- How corporate cash has corrupted the environmental movement and the big conservation groups.

- Dave Roberts runs across a bill that's bipartisan, and supported in both House and Senate, which would provide energy efficiency retrofits for rural homeowners at very little cost and the possible gain of rural buy-in to a clean energy economy. Let's pass it yesterday.

- Eight counties in California have unemployment rates over 20%, and the unemployment rate went up in 30 states in January.

- House Democrats ban no-bid contracts for private contractors extended through congressional earmarks. Now that's earmark reform I can get behind.

- Last Thursday, Yolo County Sheriffs ripped off a student protester's shirt and held her hostage until other students protesting California's higher education cuts agreed to disperse.

- Reproductive rights empowerment fail. What happened to trusting women?

- Days after the Taguba report on Abu Ghraib abuses came out, the Dept. of Defense asked for extra permission to torture.

- The short-sale program, HAFA, is unlikely to help homeowners with 2nd mortgages.

- On the need for empathy in social media communications.

- Median wealth for single black women is $5. Five dollars. Wtf? Via VLaszlo in Quick Hits.

- Dear Obama administration, while you're sabotaging 'your' side by embracing Bush's policies, please remember that pragmatism isn't a synonym for lack of principle. That is all.

- How to be a prolific short story writer.

- The Onion: Nation shudders at large block of uninterrupted text.

- Also, Amanda Marcotte dug up this Beastie Boys/Battlestar mashup, and it just had to be shared.