tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post2950502938073217746..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: The smell of fearPDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-8501056183390761942016-01-17T06:46:02.082-06:002016-01-17T06:46:02.082-06:00I appreciate the blogging suggestion, Prup, and th...I appreciate the blogging suggestion, Prup, and the Flint environmental crisis is national and political news. To this point I have Tweeted a bit and posted a toon in today's Funnies about it. There's a lot of ground to cover in a presidential election year and with our Texas Republicans setting new records in hideousness. I'll make time for a post if Rick Snyder gets more heat than a Michael Moore petition (and I have signed that, and admire Moore's efforts across the board).PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-5808881272319951412016-01-16T12:22:40.351-06:002016-01-16T12:22:40.351-06:00This is totally OT and need not be published on it...This is totally OT and need not be published on its own, but shouldn't you be covering the Flint, Michigan, lead poisoning story, which is the ultimate example of Republican economics. If you have missed it so far, Google "Flint Water Crisis" or the like, or check out Rachel Maddow's series of reports. (She was covering it when no one else outside of Michigan was.) Also check out a Skeptical Blog -- part of Science Blogs -- called RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE for solid scientific background on the story. "Orac" is Dr. David Gorski, a prominent clinical and teaching oncologist who has been blogging on quackery, Holocaust Denial, and other subjects since the pre-blog days when people actually wrote for the letter collations which were all that was available. He also calls -- or called -- himself both a 'moderate Republican' -- I doubt if he still does -- and the most conservative of the Skeptical Bloggers, but he's always been honest and extremely reliable.<br />'<br />This is the ultimate example of Republican economics and the deadly consequences it entails. MAYBE it will stop the Democratic intra-party squabbling from getting any worse. We have two good candidates. I'm a Hillary supporter because I just don't believe Bernie can get elected, and because I think Bernie is too much of an economic reductionist, but if he's thee nominee I'll do everything to fight for him, and I know 99% of the Bernie supporters will be behind Hillary in the end, with only a few "Barnberners" left once they see the alternative is Cruz. (Actually, O'Malley might be as good, but even if he's a new John Edwards, he still is better than any Republican -- and my own top choices, Gillibrand, Warren, Klobuchar and Merkley, didn't choose to run.)Prup (aka Jim Benton)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08376467128665482055noreply@blogger.com