Great Short Film on Highway Removal

From Streetfilms:

Everybody Jump Aboard the Fear Train

Beast Train by Hawanja

Yes, yes, yes . . . more jobs, faster transit, cleaner air, it's OBVIOUSLY evil.  


Bored to sobs with making up scary lies about ObamaCare, conservatives with nothing better to do than sit in swivel chairs tapping their fingertips together have stepped up their attacks on "ObamaRail".  From a depressing article on The Hill:

"In the past, it was possible to build a consensus between Washington and state governments on infrastructure spending, Cardenas said. “It was a matter of dollar separation, not where you [are] doing something or not.”

I saw this movie once, where the train was ACTUALLY POSSESSED by the DEVIL, and ran people over and then fell in a canyon and convinced everyone there to get abortions and get gay married.  It. Was. Scary.  I think there was a terrorist on it too.  And a stem-cell researcher.  And an elitist academic.  Not that I hate trains.  I totally think they're fine for SOME people.  I mean, some of my best friends take them to work, I hear.  Gotta go, gas doesn't guzzle itself!!

An Easy Green Fix . . . OPT OUT!

Here's a great way to halt an antiquated practice . . . the delivery of felled, pulped, bleached and printed trees to your door every year . . . click here to opt out.

OPT OUT

You have to register and receive an email, log in, and then choose NONE from the available list of crap they automatically deliver to your home.  It's a pain, but takes about 8 minutes, and has been vetted by treehugger.com  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/yellow-pages-industry-unveils-national-opt-out-site-neg-norton-interview.php

A Little Logic from Streetfilms

"Floating Parking" & Bike Buffer Zone in Separated Bike Lanes from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Mad Fast Trains - VIDEO

Check out this great video from the Iowa PIRG, in collaboration with U.S. PIRG, teamed up with two actors from the hit show Mad Men.

The video is set in the offices of Sterling Cooper, the fictitious 60's era advertising agency, as Pete Campbell and Harry Crane muse over the best pitch for fast trains.

What Teachers Make - VIDEO

Old Subway Cars Become Studios for London Artists

Ok so this is neat.  Erez, could I live here?  :)  Two more pics after the jump . . .

DOMA is Next.

A great article from the Current on the real threat to marriage . . . and it's not homos.

"It’s adulterers — not gays — who are the real threat to traditional marriage
DOJ has made it clear, however, that the Legislative Branch is free to defend DOMA in upcoming hearings, which would put Speaker Boehner and his tea party bosses in the same position as the defenders of Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay constitutional amendment. The Prop 8 defenders lost in federal court last year because their “expert” witnesses’ biblical-based testimony that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality is a sin was deemed inadmissible in court and because they were unable to provide any evidence that same-sex marriage harms society."