Two hopeful DailyKos entries on Things Green

Growing Green in the City looks at the state of agriculture in American cities.

Improving learning: Greening Schools, the real payoff looks at immediate and long-term effects of schools' going green.

Recommended.
 

And a DailyKos rant: Stop Defending; Stop Apologizing

Stop Defending; Stop Apologizing

WORD. Why the hell should I, or anyone, apologize for condemning the man who's been using our Constitution for toilet paper since Day One?
 

OH GOD I LOVE COMEDY CENTRAL

Stephen Colbert v. MoveOn.org

*dies*

Not particularly work safe, but not filthy or anything.
 

Oh, shit. Such a horrible news story.

Suspects shoot father, murder infant son execution-style

Sunday, September 16, 2007
14:02 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --

Seconds after killing a 21-year-old father during a suspected home-invasion robbery on Friday, two suspects fired a bullet into the head of the man's 7-month-old son who was seated in a car seat, police said this weekend as they released new details on the case.

Investigators initially reported that the father, Sean Paul Aquitania, was killed inside a home after an attempted robbery and that his infant son, Sean Paul Aquitania Jr., was accidentally caught in the crossfire. But a more thorough investigation throughout the weekend determined that the son had been murdered execution-style in the car seat of his dad's Chevrolet Malibu.

"We are angered as law enforcement officers and disturbed as human beings that anyone could commit such an unconscionable act against an innocent child," said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran.

This world of ours can be so hideously unfair. Please send your prayers, good thoughts, wishes, good vibes, whatever, toward that poor baby's mother.

The man who fired that shot—surely only one of them shot the baby?—is an evil person. He must be so utterly broken inside, but I still can't find it in myself to pity him.