Sunday, April 20, 2003

Saying what you mean... Not! Introducing a new and improved pro-environment lingo that is sure to keep Americans convinced that you actually care about the environment, without having to do any of the heavy lifting like actually protecting anything. It's LuntzSpeak, the creative handiwork of Republican pollster Frank Luntz 7:33:26 PM    comment []  trackback []

Quote of the day There's no way I can tell you to the penny what my earnings are going to be next quarter. The only way you can do that -- to the penny! -- is to cook the books. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS 7:29:29 PM    comment []  trackback []

E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals. Scientists are raising concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of an important family of industrial chemicals. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Science] The perfluorinated acids are challenging traditional presumptions of how chemicals can move and behave, both in the environment and in organisms. "It's nonvolatile. It's not soluble. How does it get to these remote locations?" 7:20:50 PM    comment []  trackback []

Bursting bubbles The Third Bubble. Three bubbles actually burst at the beginning of the 21st century: a stock market bubble, a corporate ethics bubble and a terrorism bubble. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion] We are strong because of who we are. Iraq was weak because of what it was. So, yes, let's add a metal detector or two at the airports, but let's stop thinking we have to remake our whole society, constrict all civil liberties, ban all Arab students and throw out all our foreign policy doctrines that have served us so well [~] from deterrence to collective security to the usefulness of the U.N. [~] to meet this new terrorism threat. We do not, and we must not. 7:17:35 PM    comment []  trackback []