
June 28th, 2012 1:45pm



To again quote Bradbury, what optimal behaviors should we be taking to slow climate change or end wasteful oil subsidies or improve the health of our citizenry or protect the integrity of our food supply?
We all want change on these issues, but it won’t come without action. When we look back in a year, we will want to be pleased with the sum of our work. We will want to see our hope create change through action. The Republicans continuously prove the method works. When will we do the work required to win?
While the individual mandate was found to be constitutional, a key lesson in the fight over health care reform is to realize how Republicans helped create this moment. In a post published prior to the today’s ruling, Chris Tackett argues that the environmental and sustainability movements need to think about creating situations or “realities” in which their goals can be politically feasible.
Read the rest: Whether Obamacare is Constitutional or Not, Republicans Created This Reality. A Lesson We Can’t Afford to Ignore
(via treehugger)
I made this look good.
I think the bat-family has some of the most attractive people in all of fiction.

Sniffing Out the Stench of Life on Mars
The search for life on Mars trundles on and, beside a few tantalizing hints, we still don’t know if the Red Planet could ever have played host to the most basic of life forms.
Why are we having such a hard time? Well, potential abodes for tiny Martians are (or were) likely deep underground, so we need to be smart and look for secondary indications of microbial alien life. And what better way to find aliens than to sniff them out, literally?
Spider-Men #2
After reading this Peter Parker earned a spot in my top five favorite comics characters. Congrats and welcome, Peter.