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Cartoons For The Week After The Shutdown/Impeachment That Weren’t — YET.
Thursday Grand Slam ‘Toons
Gwynne Dyer: The Secret Life of BRICS
What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything?
What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything?
YOU can expand the curious organisation called the BRICS, but you can’t define it. In fact, it’s hardly even an organisation: no headquarters, no secretariat. Even the (British) Commonwealth and la Francophonie have more substance: at least they share a former oppressor. Yet the BRICS are expanding.
Garrison Keillor: Out with the old, in with the young
Out with the old, in with the young
The Column: 08.25.23
I am delighted by the court ruling in Montana that the state, by encouraging the use of fossil fuels, violated the constitutional right of young people to “a clean and healthful environment,” something no court has ever proclaimed before.
“Clean and healthful environment” is in the Montana state constitution. The legislature had forbidden state agencies to consider climate change when considering fossil fuel projects, and this decision would change that, but the state will appeal and likely the decision will be tossed away like used tissue, but still it’s an interesting idea: that we have legal obligations to our kids beyond feeding and clothing them and not putting them to work in shoe factories before they’re 12.
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