Posts Tagged ‘Congress’

The Distinguished Gentleman Who Speaks for the Trees

In 2007, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works questioned EPA administrator Stephen Johnson about issues like emissions regulation and toxic release tracking. The EPA was also shutting some of its public libraries. Committee Chair Barbara Boxer was critical of this, while ranking Republican James Inhofe said it was a good and necessary step. [...]

3rd March 2012 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Comic Sans Controversy

Fine, fine we’ve all beaten up on Comic Sans at one point or another. It’s inspired loads of discussion online, most of it quite ferocious ridicule. (You can see some hilarious examples at Comic Sans Criminal.) Still, we’re all pretty accustomed to it, no? In LOLing e-mail forwards and cobbled-together personal websites, that kind of [...]

19th December 2011 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Alaska, Re-factored

When Ted Stevens was found guilty of all seven charges of failing to report gifts last week, the conventional wisdom, at least in the Lower 48, was that the Republicans had lost another Senate seat. I’m inclined to agree. But with reservations. Because if there’s any place that will surprise you politically (other than Minnesota, [...]

3rd November 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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