A few weeks ago, I wrote here that as part of my Omaha Episcopal Service Corps internship, I am working part-time for Repower America. The other major part of my ESC internship is a part-time job at a local Episcopal church, the Church of the [...] 
Not sure what put it in my head to go with this old chestnut, but here it is.
It wasn't the climate change-caused storm, it was the faulty levees and the devestation of the wetlands that slammed New Orleans.' [...]
President Obama is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Read my thoughts at Blue Moose Democrat in a post called, "Obama’s Nobel Prize, While Largely Undeserved, Is Good For America."
I've posted this before, and I guarantee I will post it again. But I mean, seriously, MOST AWESOME THING EVER. No, I mean it - there's Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth and Piano Concertos, there's Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and there's this.
I may not blog much until Sunday or Monday - I'm off to San Diego for baby-but-not-little brother's graduation from Marine boot camp! Ooo-rah!
Cross-posted from Blue Moose Democrat.
These pictures are amazing! NPR reports that Michael Nichols, a photographer for National Geographic, has come up with a new method that allows him to take a picture of an entire Redwood tree at once, something I had previously thought impossible.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Bill McKibben, a scholar at Vermont's Middlebury College, may be the most prominent climate activist in the country. He's been behind many (most?) of the biggest global warming demonstrations, including a 2006 walk across Vermont that was at that time the largest anti-climate change action in history, [...] 
For fans of Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, etc., I give you Andra Suchy. I am banging my head on the wall, asking myself, how did I not hear of her sooner?
Did you know that jazz icon Norah Jones also sings country music? Yup! In addition to her own albums, she is one of two lead singers for the band "The Little Willies," named for Willie Nelson. Here they are with one of Nelson's songs.
In honor of Labor Day, I give you the Worker's Song from the ever-awesome Dropkick Murphys.
A Halloween special from Man in the Box.
Hathos. Pure hathos. I do apologize, but I can't help it.
