Monthly Archives: February 2012

Xena, Princess Warrior or Rainbow Warrior?

Lucy Lawless, who played Xena, Warrior Princess, boarded an oil drilling rig in New Zealand that’s headed up to the arctic to drill for oil. Because, you know, that’s such an awesome economic opportunity now that the ice is retreating due to that global warming that’s caused by all that fossil fuel we’re burning. And

30 years with Greenpeace today.

It’s been called to my attention that it’s the 30th anniversary of the day I stuck my foot in the door of a Greenpeace office, as evidenced by this rather embarrassingly scruffy canvasser badge: I don’t really have much more to say than I did five years ago, in the blog below about that first

Screw nature: it’s about the fate of the Lolcatz

Screw nature. It’s about cat videos. I was a proud participant in the SOPA protest. This website, along with 25 Greenpeace websites and every website I could influence, went dark to demand the internet remain a haven of free speech, and the free and creative playground that it is now: a safe place to put