Well, that's OK, you can find interesting and witty stuff from me in other places too.
Since I will have a lot of sit-around time on the weekends for a while, I though it would be fun to be a weekend blogger for Chicagoist. They ran my first piece over the weekend...I guess it is a tryout...hopefully they will run more soon:
- Will Celebrity Apprentice Decide Most Embarrassing Political State? - The title pretty much says it all. Which is worse these days, Springfield or Albany? Sadly, TV will decide...
On NRDC's Switchboard:
- Federal Ocean and Great Lakes Policy - Are My Boogie Boarding Rights at Risk? (no.) - Did ya hear that Obama is going to outlaw fishing? No? Then you clearly don't read right wing blogs or listen to Rush. Good for you... If you did hear that silly rumor, let me set the record straight.
- The Crude in Syncrude: Ugliness at the tar sands duck trial - This is more for our friends to the north, but if you are interested in just how yucky the Canadian oil industry is...check out this disaster (I am talking about their PR actually, though the environmental mess is startling too).
- Gefilte Fish: The solution to world peace and Asian carp - Passover is coming and the most polarizing of its traditional foods was in the spotlight recently when Secretary of State Clinton promised to break a trade impasse that would allow containers of Asian carp fished out of the Illinois River to be shipped to Israel for ground fish cakes... Problems solved? No...
- Of Carp and Kingfishers: Chicago and Guam are not so far apart - What happens when you don't take care of invasive species quickly? Some of the critters at Brookfield Zoo are a lesson on what inaction over Asian carp could eventually lead to...
- Poisoning Flipper: Chemicals Flushed in Chicago Wreak Havoc on Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico - Another zoo-related post. It turns out that I know a guy who can explain some of the ugly impacts of the chemicals getting flushed into Chicago's water by the local metal plating industry. He's a marine biologist in Florida...ugh...
- Asian Carp: "I feel like I was in a [bleeping] prize fight” - You don't even need to read this one---just check out the embedded video. Its worth your time...
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