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Manjula Martin runs the important and revolutionary site Who Pays Writers, which asks and answers that important question. She also does many other things, which are detailed here, and has excellent taste in music and vintage photos of Justine Frischmann. (!!) We love having her as a subscriber.
“Suicide” (2 of 2) on Flickr.
“Passing side” (1 of 2) on Flickr.
Here is the great video for Pistol Annies’ “Hush Hush,” which has been lodged in my brain for more than week now. And here is something I have written for Slate about the seemingly unlikely but increasingly cozy relationship between weed and country music. And now I would like some green bean casserole please.
We’re all Willie’s kids now.
The Lunny family, which owns the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, has been fighting for years to stay put — the family’s appeal is due to be heard in court this week. But recently, this dispute has gotten caught up in national environmental battles, including the fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Members of Congress and national green groups have weighed in. And what ultimately amounts to just two square miles of “potential wilderness” have split the environmental movement right down the middle, locally and nationally.
The battle for this estuary has become far more than a fight about an oyster farm — it’s become a flashpoint in the debate over what we want out of the natural world, and what we can afford. At a time of both economic and ecological crisis, how much sense does it make to put a fence up around nature? How much sense does it make to let business interests capitalize off public lands? And who gets to decide?
The battle for Drakes Bay, me for Grist
Ocean Front Promenade near the pier in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa...
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