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With Gore Galore
Al Gore will run as Independent for president, Bloomberg tapped as veep
You might want to sit down for this: Al
Gore has announced his candidacy for president.
Wait, wait, don't get up yet: Gore, a lifelong
Democrat, will run as an Independent. He's even
announced his vice-prez pick: New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, who only last week dodged
rumors that he'd be Barack Obama's second fiddle.
But Bloomberg only has eyes for Dreamy Al. "This
is a man who gets things done," Bloomberg said.
"We're tired of waiting on Democrat and
Republican bickering." In a speech in Washington,
D.C., on Tuesday morning, Gore listed climate
change, foreign policy, and getting the economy
out of the dumps as his top priorities. And he
minced no words in deflecting skepticism about
his chances. "With all due respect to Senators
Clinton, Obama, and McCain," he said, "what
America needs is Al Gore."
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TODAY'S NEWS
<> Martha, Martha, Martha!
Alice Waters plans to sell Chez Panisse to Martha Stewart
Fresh-food guru Alice Waters is retiring
from the restaurant biz, with plans to sell her
famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley to none
other than ... Martha Stewart. "It's been a good
run for me, and I'm excited about the
restaurant's future," says Waters, who turns 65
years old this month. "Having the oomph of the
Martha Stewart brand behind local and seasonal
food will be thrilling." Um, yes. Thrilling.
Stewart, whose media company recently
acquired the rights to TV chef Emeril Lagasse's
franchise, assured through a spokesperson that
while "[w]e are considering changing the
restaurant's name to Chez Martha ... the dining
experience will remain much the same." Waters
plans to focus her now free-er time on her Edible
Schoolyard project at a Berkeley elementary school.
sources:
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Francisco Chronicle,
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New York Times
<> Where There's a Will, There's ... Um, Just a Will
McCain wants to run White House on nuclear power
In a campaign speech at Mississippi State
University Monday, John McCain declared that by
the end of his potential presidency, the White
House will be powered "entirely by renewable
energy." Is that so, John? And what kind of
renewable energy might that be? "I will work hard
to ensure that Americans are safe from
terrorists, and I will conduct that work from a
White House reliant on safe, clean, nuclear power
produced right here in the United States," McCain
said. Really, words fail us.
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Reflector
Barging In
USDA researching floating farmland for biofuel crops
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is
doing "preliminary research" into growing
biofuel-bound crops on enormous floating barges,
USDA Secretary Ed Schafer said at the Mid-America
Farm Exposition in Salina, Kan., last week.
Critics of the Bush administration's generous
subsidies for biofuel crops have raised
concerns about reduced farmland for food crops,
and the barge scheme would address that, said
Schafer. He added, "This 'oceanic farmland' would
also sequester carbon." The USDA Agricultural
Research Service plans to present its research on
amber waves of floating grain within the next week.
sources:
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Press
<> Also Changes Name to DumbCar
General Motors buys SmartCar, shuts down plant
Yesterday, General Motors bought
smart-'n'-tiny SmartCar from Mercedes-Benz
(itself a subsidiary of Daimler AG). And before
we even had time to write it up, news emerged
that GM has already shut down a SmartCar plant in
Michigan. GM execs say they're merely
streamlining and no jobs will be lost -- laid-off
employees will be transitioned to elsewhere in
the company. Activists, however, are skeptical of
the motives of General Motors, which starred so
unforgettably in the documentary Who Killed the
Electric Car? Will the enviro-beloved, teeny-tiny
Smart Fortwo, which just made its U.S. debut in
January, meet the EV-1's grisly end? Stay tuned.
sources:
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Wall Street Journal,
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Washington Post,
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Free Press
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<> Exhale to the Chief
Umbra on breathing
Q. Dear Umbra,
I was thinking, while I was exercising the other
day, that maybe my exertion (aka panting) was
adding to global warming. Could excess breathing
put lots of carbon dioxide into the air? Should
we all be trying to breathe less?
Carl
Annapolis, Md.
A. Dearest Carl,
Take a deep breath. What I am about to say might
shock you, but it is an inescapable truth of life
in the 21st century ...
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I mentioned this before? Coal is the enemy of the
human race.
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