It’s hard to know whether the New York Time’s content or the timing of the piece are more suspect, but appearing as it does on a hotly contested election day it does not rise to the level of responsible journalism.

I’m glad Union Carbide execs will finally see some prison time. But it’s not enough to hold executives accountable 26 years after huge disasters. We need to get more serious about holding corporations — and corporate executives — accountable for their crimes.

Today is Election Day in 11 states–don’t forget to vote! In California, voters can take a small step toward public financing of elections by supporting Prop 15.

Dr. Samantha Joye, professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia, whose research team first spotted evidence of vast undersea plumes of oil near the BP oil disaster, was on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night to explain the theory of how plumes form and the steps they were taking to confirm and plot the plumes’ size and reach.

Surly is about the best word to describe the America’s Future Now conference in Washington after the first day. Speaker after speaker excoriated the trajectory from the political sphere as too accommodating, too solicitous, and not enough. Attendees cheered more at the comments about the failures of governance rather than its successes. Progressives – and at this conference, you can even include the institutional groups in that – are just unhappy.

The New York Times’ editorial board has called for the White House and Congress to investigate charges of illegal human experimentation by the CIA and possibly other agencies. Such illegal research is a war crime, and insofar as undertaken by medical professionals, represent a grave breach of medical ethics.

Stop playing the ‘blame game’ people!

Funny how journalism works nowadays.

Jimi Hendrix — Wild Thing, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.

It’s certainly been a week of whack in the land of Conservatardia, and it’s only Monday. Yeesh.