Lance Steagall

Barney Frank. Always a good sport. Always willing to interact with the blogosphere. Here’s him sitting down for Reddit: What’s your Saturday looking like?

So my older sister, being the doin-good type, is a proud employee of Seventh Generation – a corporation I’m not ashamed to plug. Right now SevGen (get hip to the lingo) is sponsoring the “Million Baby Crawl,” which means, at present, hundreds of babies are inching down from the Burlington, VT headquarters, all the way to DC. There, they’ll raise some hell on the Green as they demand toxic chemical policy reform. It’s a good cause, one close to any new mother’s heart, and I encourage you to go support these fine young citizens.

Via Executive Healthcare: It may be surprising to hear, but diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for approximately 70,000 annual deaths. Among Americans 30 and older, 13.7 percent of men and 11.9 percent of women have diabetes. Almost one-third of them have never received a diagnosis of the [...]

Grist gives us 7 of them: 1. Key Republican support is already in place 2. Health care reform might just work out after all 3. The public wants this bill 4. International pressure is becoming intense 5. The administration is engaged 6. Greens are getting their act together at last 7. The business community is [...]

The end of an era?

Does Mr. T really pity the fool who doesn’t buy a Flavorwave convection oven?

That’s the kind of question American regulators will soon be asking, in light of revisions announced Monday to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s advertising guidelines.

The commission, which works against “fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices,” has modified its code regulating endorsements and testimonials.

Healthy democracies require a healthy populace. More and more Americans are becoming more concerned about what they put in their bodies, and the burgeoning local food movement is one of the most hands-on, progressive actions individual citizens can take. As such, we’re beginning a weekly focus on the sustainable food movement.

The latest from long-time friend of the Seminal, Mike Stark. Mark Stein, the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, on Limbaugh’s equating Democrats to Nazis:I think everybody in the political system ought to eschew these remarks. I think this sorts of fire-bomb labeling is McCarthyism at its worst, whether from the left or the right…

From BHO’s Family Day proclamation:

A new poll by those natural bedfellows 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair offers some fodder for discussion.

Via Reddit, which asks “Has Katie Couric done to Glenn Beck What She Did to Sarah Palin?” So what did Beck mean when he accused Obama, raised by his white mother and white grandparents, of a “deep-seated hatred for white culture”? Justin Gardner at Donklephant takes a stab at it:
Let me clue you in to what Beck means when he talks about white culture: