THERE'S BAD NEWS, AND THEN THERE'S MORE BAD NEWS

unlike many journalers, i  work in an environment where i'm not connected to a computer most of the day.  i'm in the classroom during the day, with occasional trips to the Learning Ctr and Library.  so when i can, i try on weekends to catch up with news and views online. i've just spent the morning journeying through environmental and political sites, magazines, blogs.  now i need to go find a large stash of ecstasy.  either in pill form, chocolate, or negative ocean ions. you know me by now, it's gonna be Bethany Beach today.  and there better be some really big smashing crashing waves.

but here's the good news about the bad news:  there's some real information available to us out there on the net.  stuff you're never going to hear on the news.  at least i certainly haven't.  a site that will be indispensable to me from now on is Bush Green Watch, "Tracking the Bush Administration's Environmental Misdeeds."  this site is updated daily, and thoroughly, with good references and links.  todays update discloses how Bush has underfunded the National Parks, and undercut the Endangered Species Act.  read this back issue about drilling on Padre Island National Seashore in the nesting grounds of the endangered Ridley Turtle. 

on the sidebar of this site i found this one, Save Our Environment, A National Coalition for the Environment.  here 20 some environmental groups have joined to create a site for taking action on the growing list of administration misdeeds.  you can sign up to take action on every imaginable environmental issue, send emails and faxes to administration officials, members of congress, etc.  it's also possible to link to all the groups making up the coalition.