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MoJo Mix: 9 July 2009
Laura again, dropping off a few MoJo stories I think you'll like. Don't worry, Kevin will be back in the next post.
My favorite Kevin Drum graf today:
According to a recent Pew survey, 55 percent of scientists are Democrats and only 6 percent are Republicans. This is good news for everyone. Democrats now have quantitative backup for their sneers about Republicans being anti-science. Likewise, Republicans now have quantitative backup for their sneers about scientists just being a bunch of liberal shills who aren't to be trusted on questions like climate change and evolution. We all win!
Yours? Plus, four stories for your Thursday MoJo Mix.
1) Where in the World is the FTC? MoJo finds them briefing corporate lawyers in Aruba and Cancun.
2) How many Time journalists does it take to change Sarah Palin's defensive pull-out story into a coherent "just the frontier spirit we need for national office" narrative? (A: Five, at David Corn's last count.)
3) From the "Really, This Kind of Racist %)@* Still Happens?" file: A private Philly swim club booted an inner city day camp after members refused to swim with black kids. Stay classy, Philly.
4) Welcome to the High Sierras, where the woods are lovely, dark, and...full of gun-toting narcofarmers. Still up for a weekend hike?
Laura McClure hosts podcasts, writes the MoJo Mix, and is the new media editor at Mother Jones. Read her investigative feature on lifehacking gurus in the latest issue of Mother Jones.
Of course this stuff still happens...
http://www.ohio.com/news/50172282.html
re: High Sierras
The title "High Sierras" is really rather unfortunate. While of course there are *some* grow operations in the Sierras, the numbers are vastly greater in the coastal ranges, such as up in Mendocino/Trinity County... or as even the example in the article mentions: the Santa Cruz mountains. Despite the name 'Sierra Azul', it's actually not the Sierras.
Not to say you shouldn't watch for black bears in the Sierras (even though they really aren't that dangerous), you just shouldn't really be that worried about narcofarmers with guns.
Now, narco-farming black bears...that's a scifi book I'd read.
New Media Editor, Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/authors/laura-mcclure
Narco farming
I heard rumors a few years ago that this was occurring in the forests in NM as well, but how organized it was and who exactly was behind it was not clear.
I quite like the MoJo story
I quite like the MoJo story drops; no need to be so apologetic!
Oh yay!
Thanks Dan. If there's any particular type you'd like to see more of, let me know!
New Media Editor, Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/authors/laura-mcclure