Shane Murphy, Freed Pirate Hostage, Slams "Disgusting" Rush Limbaugh
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:50:13 -0700
Shane Murphy, second-in-command aboard the ship seized by Somali pirates this month, is happy to be home. But he's not happy to be sharing turf with land-lubber Rush Limbaugh, who politicized the pirate affair by referring to the pirates as "black teenagers." "It feels great to be home," said Murphy in an interview with WCBV in Boston . "It feels like everyone around here has my back, with the exception of Rush Limbaugh, who is trying to make this into a race issue...that's disgusting." L
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Is America ready for Fair-Trade?
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:45:09 -0700
Starbucks is going Fair Trade in the UK, so is Cadbury. Their U.S. counterparts aren’t. What’s up with that? This piece in CS Monitor by Eric Marx pretty much sums it up: …more than 70 percent of the British populace recognize the fair-trade mark, whereas consumer recognition in the United States is only 28 percent, according to recent surveys. And as I pointed out here , environmentalism and organics tend to trump fair-trade. The article confirms that: TransFair USA, the nonpro
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