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Communist Champagne for Christmas, and Congressman Pete MCloskey — A Tribute to My Former Boss on Capitol Hill

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A Weekend Read:  Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who once challenged Nixon, just died at 96. 


[NOTE]: Pete made a lot of impact, against the Vietnam war, for the (then-new) environmental movement, and in other ways helped save and enrich the lives of many people, both far away and in the USA. 

One  American he changed was me.

The big impact started with champagne for Christmas. But first, some background from the Associated Press:

May 8, 2024
Pete McCloskey, Back in the Day

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Pete McCloskey — a pro–environment, anti–war California Republican who co–wrote the Endangered Species Act and co–founded Earth Day — has died. He was 96.

A fourth–generation Republican “in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt,” he often said, McCloskey represented the 12th Congressional District for 15 years, running for president against an incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972. He battled party leaders while serving seven terms in Congress and went on to publicly disavow the GOP in his later years.

He died at home Wednesday, May 8, according to Lee Houskeeper, a family friend.

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A Superbowl Alternative (or Prequel): Something Fishy. (Two things, Actually.)

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[NOTE: I hardly eat fish anymore, though in my old-style Catholic boyhood Fish-on-Friday was a rule. I particularly liked tuna. But tuna (along with a lot of Catholic dogmas) turned out to be toxic, along with a lot of other finned favorites. So I mostly let it pass.

But of course that doesn’t absolve me of complicity in the ongoing world fish fiasco: I’m a longtime cat owner.  So I’m pondering these two articles too.]

#1 — The Guardian — Interview

Sylvia Earle on the Oceans: ‘We are on the brink – a million species may be lost’
Chris Michael in Vancouver — Thu 9 Feb 2023

We are a species that is superb at killing, says veteran oceanographer, who calls for us to stop treating fish like crops and give them the respect they deserve

Seascape: the state of our oceans is supported bytheguardian.org

The renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle has urged a global gathering of marine experts to rein in industrial overfishing that threatens hundreds of species with extinction and to rethink our relationship with the oceans, calling on humanity to “do unto fish as you would have them do unto you”. Continue reading A Superbowl Alternative (or Prequel): Something Fishy. (Two things, Actually.) →