Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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NBC on ABEC
Via ThinkProgress comes this segment on NBC Nightly News: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011965&w=425&h=370&fv=launch%3D23279992%26amp%3Bwidth%3D400%26amp%3Bheight%3D320] Obviously I am totally unable to judge these things with any sort of objectivity. All I see is a huge, wealthy, politically connected industry using propaganda techniques to push a dirty facility on a community that is so poor and desperate that it’s willing […]
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Notable quotable
“His being on the Green Party [ballot] prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we could have had, and I think that’s really unfortunate. I think we paid a big price for it. I’m pretty sad about that. — Hillary Clinton, on Ralph Nader’s entry into the 2008 presidential race
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Water wars!
The Georgia legislature, perhaps driven slightly around the bend by the drought battering its state, is attempting to claim part of the Tennessee River, which it claims is rightly Georgia’s based on the original border drawn between the states in 1818. Chattanooga, Tenn., says, um, no, we’ll keep the river, thanks. Can a shooting war […]
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Friday music blogging: She & Him
I have an enormous and longstanding celebrity crush on actress Zooey Deschanel. I was a Deschanelophile way back when I saw her in Mumford, and then Almost Famous sealed the deal. My wife and I even loved Elf, the dumb 2003 xmas comedy with Will Ferrell. Some of the cutest parts of that movie are […]
