Thursday, July 02, 2015
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
pledge drive
Pledge Drive
We are all familiar with the " pledge drives" staged 2 or 3 times a year by our public radio and TV stations. These are annoying but highly necessary to fund their operations. But I picture this scenario:
During the June drive, I call the station to pledge to donate $500 in October . I'm asked for my credit card. I explain that, as requested, I'm making a pledge. Told that the credit card is needed and respond that this is a "pledge drive", I'm complying and won't want my credit card charged until October. I'm told that the system doesn't work that way. The conversation goes round and round until I give up and "donate" my usual $50.
We are all familiar with the " pledge drives" staged 2 or 3 times a year by our public radio and TV stations. These are annoying but highly necessary to fund their operations. But I picture this scenario:
During the June drive, I call the station to pledge to donate $500 in October . I'm asked for my credit card. I explain that, as requested, I'm making a pledge. Told that the credit card is needed and respond that this is a "pledge drive", I'm complying and won't want my credit card charged until October. I'm told that the system doesn't work that way. The conversation goes round and round until I give up and "donate" my usual $50.
Monday, June 29, 2015
EPA
The U.S. Supreme Court plunked a setback
into the lap of the Environmental Protection Agency Monday by trashing
the agency's regulation of emissions of mercury and other air toxins
(MATS) from electricity-generating plants. The court overturned a
lower-court decision in the case of Michigan v. EPA stating that
the agency had acted reasonably when it chose not to consider compliance
costs first in its effort to control those emissions.
Seems to me that when an environmental agency decides that it is dangerous to emit poisonous toxins into the air, it is up to us and our industries to figure out how not to do it.
Seems to me that when an environmental agency decides that it is dangerous to emit poisonous toxins into the air, it is up to us and our industries to figure out how not to do it.
