An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms

An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms

The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation's leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters.

One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.

I finished building a fence yesterday - pretty damn proud of it. OK, it's only 14-feet long and 3-feet high - but it looks DAMN GOOD!!

I have to spray it now with a protective seal, so it won't turn grey and rot in one year. Let's see how fast that happens . . .

My Top Albums of 2005

Peasall Sisters - Home to You
Kronos Quartet & Asha Bohsle - You've Stolen My Heart
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series, V.7 - Soundtrack to Film
Iron & Wine & Calexico - In the Reins
Wilco - Kicking Television
Nada Surf - The Weight is a Gift
Harvey Danger - Little by Little
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks
The New Pornographers -Twin Cinema
Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones
Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer?
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Son Volt - Okemah & the Melody of Riot
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
The Great Lakes Myth Society - S/T
Decemberists - Picaresque
Bettie Serveert - attagirl
The Chris Stamey Experience - A Question of Temperature

Adrienne Young & Little Sadie - The Art of Virtue
Rachel Ries - For You Only