It is important that we wrestle with these questions consciously and openly -- before the greening of the world's economies proceeds irretrievably along the same lines as the unjust, unequal, gray economy. There is no racist governor standing in the warehouse door, blocking solar-company CEOs from hiring urban youth. There are no white-hooded hoodlums insisting that health-food stores charge prices for healthy food that low-income parents could never afford. On the other hand, there is no Bull Connor preventing African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, or Latinos from joining the movement to reverse climate change. The barriers separating us from each other are wafer thin -- and largely of our own making.

The Green Collar Economy, Van Jones

- When will these tasteless abstinence fetishists learn to stop creeping everybody out with ostentatious displays of their deviant lifestyle? I've known plenty of people in the BDSM community who were more polite about only discussing their kink with interested parties.

- Sex isn't all about the boy parts.

- It's apparently breaking news to people who aren't liberal that Obama isn't very liberal ... as many people who were liberal were saying all along.

- The disadvantages of an elite education.

- You know how city governments compete for big conferences to boost hotel booking rates, as well as tourist income at local restaurants and retail establishments? When those conferences have international attendees, visa foot-dragging may start costing the US conference events.

- Who could ever have predicted that ideologically satisfying (to someone) but purely cosmetic attempts to solve problems would a) not work and b) in fact make them worse? You can't solve bigotry with firearms, you can't protect the sanctity of the electoral process by excluding more voters, and you can't solve airport security by forcing everyone to throw away their hand lotion and shuffle around in their sock feet in public.

- Across much of the mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Upper Midwest, there are no acorns this year. Holy frakking bleep.

- Pakistan not source of all bad behavior in Indian subcontinent.

- Jim Jones, Obama's new national security adviser has a truly disastrous energy policy outlook, courtesy his wankerrific associates at the human habitat-hating Chamber of Commerce. The CoC, if you weren't aware, seems to be of the discredited opinion that human beings can continue having an economy after completely destroying the habitat that provides their life support.

Now you, what's on your minds?