m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass has an article in Nature.com about gas-free water cleaning: Pure Water Washes Greener.
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I went to see the movie Indigo tonight. It was a good independent film. A child with psychic abilities is able to heal a broken family. There are some really touching moments in the film and Meghan, who plays an Indigo child, really does a good job.
In the movie, these [...]

in 8010, blog politics
In today’s news, Bloggers beware, your words may come back to haunt you at work on azcentral.com.
We talked about this briefly Wednesday night. Someone said we didn’t really need to worry about someone digging up words we’ve said. However, check out the above link. Future employers will google us. [...]

I watched a few minutes of a special on HGTV tonight about people who go overboard decorating for the holidays. One of the women profiled puts up 32 themed Christmas trees and thousands of other decorations in her 8000 square foot home. She says that she has had people tell her she is [...]

When looking up the definition of Natural Law, at HyperDictionary, I clicked on Jacques Maritain’s book title that was advertised, Reflections on Theory and Practice (coincidentally, Dr. Comas mentioned him this morning in rhetoric class), which was linked to Overstock.com. I didn’t know Overstock.com sold books. I just found a new place to [...]

Sunday ruminations…
What if presidential candidates bought air time on tv, as Perot did a few years back, and explained their platform to the American people?
In addition to this and to the debates, what if each presidential candidate appeared solo before an independant moderator and was asked to explain why his (or her!) policies and plans [...]

One of the reasons I think lower- and middle-income folks vote conservatively even when it is not the platform that will assist them in bettering their economic conditions is because they so admire those who are rich and have material things.
What if progressives who are rich were more vocal in their beliefs and acted as [...]

“The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not, what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. [...]

From a Yahoo News Story
“I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” Bush said a day after a decisive victory … “I’ll reach out to everyone who shares our goals,” said Bush, who 24 hours earlier had promised to try to win over those who voted for his [...]

From a NY Times article:
“I think that there’s a great deal of evidence that the American people support this president,” said Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader who was Southeast regional coordinator of the Bush campaign this year. “There is a wide swath of voters, not just in the South but in the [...]