Fixating on Nitrogen and Spreading Manure

Nitrogen is the most common substance in the atmosphere, existing mostly as two atoms held together by a triple bond. Nitrogen enters the system through the activity of various bacteria (some associated with plants but others free living). Nitrogen in natural systems also falls with rain... lightening will fuse nitrogen and oxygen together in several water soluble configurations (also fusing oxygen to itself forming ozone, O3). Ever noticed how green things look after a thunderstorm? In part because there was a dose of N added.

Trump May Charge Allies Up To 600% More For Hosting US Troops

In some cases, nations hosting American forces could be asked to pay five to six times as much as they do now under the “Cost Plus 50” formula

Republicans love Jews, but Jews don't love Republicans back. In response, a "grassroots" movement is helping Jews see the truth about the "far left" Democrats. It's called #Jexodus.

In this past week, Tulsi has been spending a lot of time in Washington DC and she has some appearances in mainstream media coming up.

STILL WE VOTE

In the black community, voting has always been complicated.

We voted and yet you lynched us.

We voted and yet you incarcerated us.

We voted and you poisoned our water.

We voted and you tested your nerve gas on our soldiers.

We voted and you dissected, poked, and prodded our women's bodies as though they were little more than lab rats.

We voted and you redlined us into segregated cities that you knew were in flood zones, too close to the power plant, polluted with brown fields and toxic waste.

We voted but you taxed and gentrified us out of the cities to which we fled to seek asylum from the scourge of racial terrorism.

We voted in our own officials, bankers, barbers, beauticians, teachers, preachers, educators, and scientists, but you bombed and burned our Black Wall Streets to the ground. Then you voted to build a highway through it.

We voted and you called us "super predators" after we told you we needed better employment, better education, better healthcare for our sick and elderly, and land to plant and harvest healthy foods and vegetables.

By Delonte Gholston (lead pastor at Peace Fellowship Church, a multicultural, multi-socioeconomic community in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C.)

Slavery By Another Name

How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 50 years ago.

It's not enough to say Chelsea Manning is so brave - although she is. It's not enough to call her a hero. It's not enough to wish we could be like her.

We have to BE LIKE HER! We have to REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH INJUSTICE, secret courts, secret proceedings, war crimes, we must ACT

Good evening all, even if external circumstances are curbing your liberty .

Tumbleweed in motion

Wet sand

Blackbird recovering

Today is International Women's Day, and that means a day for "femvertising".

Politico? Oh My.

The Democrats’ Dilemma