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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Hot new ergonomic desk chair: 96 percent recyclable
The successor to Herman Miller’s wildly successful Aeron ergonomic desk chair is coming to a lazy, cube-drone posterior near you. It’s called the Embody and … gimme. As a DFH, though, should I be satisfied with a chair that’s only 96 percent recyclable? After last year’s epic hunt for the best ergo chair, I ended […]
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Fascinating L.A. Times article on racial and coal politics in Virginia
“We’re all black in the mines.” — Jerry Stallard, a coal union organizer in Virginia, arguing to his fellow miners that Obama’s support for unions and for coal is more important than the color of his skin
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Fey is Palin, again
Watch about five minutes in for Palin to address “this climate change whosiwhatsit.”