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FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians

March 18, 2012 4:41 pm

by WALTER BRASCH (Part 1 of 3) A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial method of forcing water, gases, and chemicals at tremendous pressure of up to 15,000 pounds per square inch into a rock formation as much as 10,000 feet below the earth’s surface...

Superbow(e)l

February 5, 2012 11:59 pm

By Hart Williams

It is weirdly tautological for animations created to sell a product to ENDORSE that product as celebrities created by the advertising FOR that product.

Drinks Are on the House (and Senate)

October 21, 2011 6:36 am

By Walter Brasch

“Got any idea how to make a frozen daiquiri?” Saturday. 6 a.m. A question no one else would have asked at that hour. I knew it had to be Marshbaum, my faux-friend foil. “Too early to be drinking,” I mumbled, then hung up. The phone rang again. “It’s not for me,” said Marshbaum, but since I’m going to own a bar, I should learn how to make drinks.” “Marshbaum,” I said, reluctantly awake, “you can’t even afford to buy...

The Weekend Reading List

April 19, 2008 11:12 pm

By Pamela Leavey

I’ve been laying low today, once again playing catch up with business and rest. Ah, yes rest… Something I never get enough of. Suffice to say running a small business and a blog keeps me very busy and rarely take much time for myself. That said, here’s the Weekend Reading List: The Gallup Daily shows a Clinton upswing in recent days: Clinton 46%, Obama 45%: At TaylorMarsh.com a piece by Paul Lukasiak dissecting the story by “journalist” Celeste Fremon that...

Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up

April 17, 2008 5:30 am

By Dizzy Dezzi

A Food Policy

April 15, 2008 8:30 pm

By Darrell Prows

Other than a very robust war policy, about the only discernible policy that BUSHCO has is their proprietary version of an energy policy, namely The Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Mind you, we can’t use any of our oil stockpile, because then it would not be available in case we face times even tougher than these. I mean, what would our military use to be able to wage war if OPEC were to ever stop it’s policy of price aggression and...

Late Night: Fact Check

April 9, 2008 12:26 am

By Pamela Leavey

H/T to Susie: There’s more here: Fact Check: Obama’s Oil Spill.

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