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“Dealing with plastic bags is easy… It threatens no one, makes money for the shops and ensures that everyone feels better about themselves, while continuing to trash the biosphere just as we did before.”

George Monbiot on Guardian.co.uk, complaining that making plastic shopping bags environmental enemy number one is distracting us from the real tasks we face

“The International Space Station, which serves no useful purpose anyway, should be given to China and the crew sent home on the Soyuz.”

An open letter to President Obama from physicist Bob Park on his widely read What’s New listserv

“The central myth which shields our failed drug laws…

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