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HOW TO: Change the world

Posted by insidmal on July 22, 2010 at 3:36 pm

What change can we effect? What’s the difference we want to make in the world?

After 7 weeks, the senate stalemate ends, Unemployment benefits are extended for 15 million Americans

Posted by insidmal on July 21, 2010 at 7:46 pm

State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits.

Good News: BP Strikes Success, Stops Oil Leak (for now)

Posted by insidmal on July 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm

A highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well began Thursday after a delay caused by leaking equipment.

The Unemployment Benefits Stalemate: Our Broken Politics on Full Display

Posted by insidmal on July 13, 2010 at 3:14 am

It’s a terrible calamity that those in charge never should have allowed to happened, it’s doing incalculable damage that will last for generations, and even as the destruction continues to spread, the government seems powerless to stop it.

Relief well drilling ahead of schedule

Posted by insidmal on July 8, 2010 at 3:50 pm

The first relief well BP is drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could intercept the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in seven to 10 days, the man heading the federal response to the oil crisis said Thursday.

Fun Facebook Accessories

Posted by insidmal on July 5, 2010 at 5:48 pm

To celebrate all things FB, we’ve rounded up a selection of Facebook-themed real-life products, from witty tees to cool stationery that you can nab now to show your love for online social networking in the offline world.

The Gulf Disaster: Whose Asses Need Kicking?

Posted by insidmal on July 1, 2010 at 5:56 pm

There’s plenty of ass-kicking to go around. All of us bear responsibility too for depending on and demanding cheap oil underwritten by risky drilling while showing again and again at the ballot box that we wouldn’t support a government that really regulated the industry.

Oil & Tar Balls Wash Up on Florida’s Coast Line

Posted by insidmal on June 27, 2010 at 7:58 pm

Nothing like a little summer sun and letting the kids run through tar balls in the sand.