- Beth Ann Bovino’s e-convo with a “Beth Ann Bovino” renting out “her” apt. A craigslist scammer gets Beth’s name and addy, puts both up on Craigslist saying the apt.’s for rent, then tries to get would-be-renters to send her the 1st month’s rent to Fresno cuz “Beth” is a deaf-mute who moved there to teach other deaf-mute people. “The scammer posted my apartment again. I remain a Californian deaf-mute.”
- Why some liberals went Republican after 9/11: “The fear of death alone is surprisingly effective in shaping our political decisions—more powerful, often, than thought itself.” A highly recommended and fascinating article about the differences between liberals and conservatives, and the way our thoughts change when we’re made to think about death, or when we’re told to ‘think rationally.’ “Most people are surprised to learn that there are real, stable differences in personality between conservatives and liberals—not just different views or values, but underlying differences in temperament.” (via 3quarksdaily)
- “Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore.” That’s what scary parents say, this time regarding a scheduled An Inconvenient Truth screening in a school: “The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn’t in the DVD.” Basically, global warming’s a good thing cuz god wants us heathens to fry to death.
- If you want a say in what personal care products can carry the USDA organic label, take this survey. It’s put out by the OCA, which has a staff person serving as a voting rep for consumers on this task force; the OCA wants to hear your opinions.
Update, 1/27/07: The school finally agrees to show An Inconvenient Truth.
re: condoms and al gore not belonging in school:
invite one of those 14000 years believers after the al gore moive. that would (sadly) be a good laugh …
i took the survey
KRAV, the Swedish USDA, has been opposing a suggested new legislation about labelling of products from organic production. one thing KRAV want to promote and has been omitted is the opportunity to have part of the ingredients being from organic production (but then 100% of that ingredient should be from organic production). They claim that it is a way to promote producers to add ingredients from organic production in their products.
btw
organicconsumers seems to be a bit confused about organic materials. organic material (or matter) basically is anything that grows, products from organic production is a completely differ matter - the matter they want to promote.
Comment by Johan — January 12, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
Hey Johan — I’m not quire sure what you mean by “the matter they want to promote” — but in any case: in the US, there’s a major diff between what one might consider the dictionary definition of “organic,” and the USDA definition of “organic.”
Comment by Siel — January 13, 2007 @ 10:52 pm