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ELECTION 2008: WASTING YOUR VOTE?
There's a concept among voters that if the candidate you really prefer has no apparent chance of winning, then it's a waste of your vote to check the box for that candidate. To address this issue, we've been forced to break out our light sabers. See our article,
Wasting Your Vote
— The Voters' Choice in 2008: Darth Vader, The Emperor, or Luke Skywalker.
TURNING GREEN OVER THE ELECTION
Do you think our politicians should do better at addressing air and water pollution, chemicals in household products, and the need for clean energy? Then you might want to check out our
environmental voting guide
and our article
Why Vote Green?
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DUMBO MUMBO-JUMBO
We don't hear that much about environmental issues on the news these days, but when we do hear it, it's sometimes hard to separate the info from the spin-fo. To help you decipher the code words, Grinning Planet presents an update of our
Environmental Doublespeak
article.
MEDIA-OCRITY
When it comes to politics, democracy, and the many other challenges of our lives, media play a central role. But, unfortunately, their value is usually negative, leaving us uninformed at best and propagandized at worst. What ever happened to true investigative journalism? Why has the press stopped doing it's job of counterbalancing those in power? Why is "media concentration" a death sentence for informative local TV, radio, and newspaper coverage? How does mainstream media send inappropriate social signals to our children and adolescents? There are lots of great books on these topics, and we have collected them on our recently upgraded
Media Books list.
TUNE IN ... EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER — “BLACK MOON”
An excellent and uncharacteristically activist song from ELP. As for the album of the same name, it's one of the few times a formerly great rock band put out something new that really was "sort of like their old stuff."
LYRICS SNIPPET:
We never learn—
Even deserts burn,
And all politicians lie.
They won't do nothin'
'Til we reach high noon...
Black Moon...
Amazon options:
-- Hear clip or download MP3
-- Check out CD
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