Food Miles
What has a smaller carbon footprint: Purchasing meat or produce at Safeway or a local farmer’s market? The answer may surprise you and isn’t as simple as you think.
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What has a smaller carbon footprint: Purchasing meat or produce at Safeway or a local farmer’s market? The answer may surprise you and isn’t as simple as you think.
LOL. This is fucking awesome!
Thanks to Reg for sending this my way!
Wow. This is an awesome story. Doctors injected an advanced melanoma patient with billions of clones of his own immune cells that were particularly adept at fighting cancer. Within eight weeks of the procedure, the man was free of tumors.
Seriously, this is amazing and has huge promise for the treatment of cancer and perhaps even for immune deficiency disorders and diseases.
I got a Facebook event invitation to “SF Obama Pride.” I declined and included a note with my declination. My note read:
“I think Barack Obama is a great candidate and I will do much to support his campaign. However, until he supports full marriage for gays and lesbians, I cannot in good conscience join an event entitled SF Obama Pride.”
Zac Efron smells bad. So says a set insider.
“It’s so gross, because Zac loves to work out and plays basketball all the time — and then goes days without showering. When he gets lazy, he likes to clean himself with baby wipes!”
I can just imagine Zac responding to this story: “Um, hello?! Do you know how hard it is to reapply self-tanner and makeup everyday? It’s totally a big deal. Like, I can’t just go around showering off hours worth of someone’s work every day, just because I get a little smelly. Vanessa totally understands, because the less time I spend in the make up trailer, the more time I get to spend with Corbin, er… I mean Vanessa. (Wait, you’re going to edit out that part about me spending time with Corbin, right?)”
Tonight’s Boy Booty celebrates the great state of California making gay marriages legal. In the first day of gays being allowed to marry, over 2,500 gay and lesbian couples tied the knot. That number is simply magical. So, without further ado, here are some hot pics of two dudes and their booties… after the jump!
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I loved today’s How the World Works by Andrew Leonard titled: Gas prices and offshore drilling. Here’s a snippet:
But what is the truly “conservative” position on offshore drilling, or energy policy in general? Recklessly exhausting all available resources now, and letting the future take care of itself — or conserving those resources, investing carefully for the future, and thinking about the long term? Where does prudence reside — in attempting to shave a few pennies off of gas prices now, or on planning on how to cope with high gas prices for the foreseeable future?
If you’re looking for a metaphor, try the competing fortunes of Toyota and General Motors on for size. George Bush and John McCain are like the fin-de-siecle executives of GM, living only in the present, catering to their customer’s worst impulses in pursuit of maximizing profit in the short term. But Democrats are like Toyota, making a bet on what makes economic sense for the future.
The NYC City Council today banned the used of bottled water for city purposes. Good for you Gavin Newsom for setting a precedent that others have followed:
The City Council has become the latest government agency to take a stand against bottled water.
Last week, the speaker’s office announced that it would stop buying bottled water for the Council’s downtown offices, which went through at least 6,000 single-serving bottles last year. As a result, bottled water will no longer be available at City Council events or official functions…
In June 2007, San Francisco’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, prohibited spending city money on single-serving bottled water. Now, more than 30 cities and towns in the United States and Canada — from Fayetteville, Ark., to Seattle to Blue Mountains, Ontario — have taken steps to curtail spending on bottled water, according to Corporate Accountability International, an advocacy group that challenges corporate abuses and which runs the Think Outside the Bottle campaign.

This is pure genius. A prankster cleverly places a photo of a marine creating a whole new advertisement. The original ad read: “Been Down on a Submarine Lately?” The new ad reads: “Been Down on a Marine Lately?”
Hell Yes! Watch around 90 second marker. And if you missed it, click through after the jump to see what I’m talking about.
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