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Thing is.

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What's that? What's that you say? Can't hear ya, young man. You'll have to speak up a bit. Nah, I'm not deaf. I'm either old or living on top of a fracking operation. Or maybe both. Yeah, hey howdy. Welcome back to the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill in beautiful upstate New York, where the winters are cold and the derricks run day and night, pulverizing the shale that supports the very ground we walk on to squeeze every last iota of value out of the battered slag that is America. Hegemonic Records and Worm Farm, our once and future corporate overlords, are working this little piece of borrowed real estate like it's Irian Jaya and they're Freeport McMoran. But.... I digress. Always like to start on a bright note. Now on to more serious matters. Well, it took some doing with all of this earth moving and earth shaking (movers and shakers are we), but we managed to post the June episode of our podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN . Another titanic installment of ... w...

Kvetch in haste.

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There's a lot going on these past few weeks, so I just want to touch on a few things and go. Touch and go, that's right. Fast and fatuous. Congressman Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted this week to recommend Attorney General Eric Holder be held in contempt of Congress. That, of course, has been reported by all and sundry. What have only really been visible on Fox News are the positively loony allegations that are behind this push for the contempt citation. Perhaps you've heard this - it's a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration allowed the "Fast and Furious" arm sales to go wrong in the hopes that the resulting increased gun violence in Mexico would prompt a popular movement for gun control back home. Crazy stuff. Except that it's being repeated by G.O.P. lawmakers like Rep. John Mica, Trent Franks, Joe Walsh, and Issa himself. Sen. Charles Grassley (a.k.a. Grandma) has alluded to this as well. So.... w...