Americans Trash Environment In Poll
An early-March Gallup poll asked Americans which was more important: developing energy supplies even at a further detriment to the environment or protecting the environment even at the cost of limiting energy supplies? Fifty percent of those polled favored securing energy supplies from gas, oil, and coal, the highest percentage Gallup has seen in 10…
Umphrey’s Bowl To Be Simulcast
Speaking of simulcasting concerts, Umphrey’s McGee has just announced that the UM Bowl 2010 will be broadcast live on iClips.net. The show will be performed in four “quarters.” The evening will be broken up into four quarters of music, each with a different interactive theme. The First Quarter will kick off with an acoustic set…
Sarah Palin Faux Interviews LL Cool J And Toby Keith
You may have heard that Sarah Palin launched a new special program on the FOX News Channel (FNC) called “Real American Stories”. The documentary-style show is not meant to be political in nature, but the first few video promos became a bit controversial. In advance of the April 1 series premier, FNC aired promos saying…
Interview: Bob Weir Part 3 – How Barack Obama Reunited The Dead
“We weren’t kicking around the notion of playing together until the opportunity to make a difference and get people registered and voting. When that opportunity came our way, we all said, ‘Hell, we gotta do this, guys.’” Bob Weir – of the Grateful Dead, RatDog, and, most recently, Furthur – sits on HeadCount’s board of…
Loophole Lets Insurance Companies Stick It To Kids With Pre-Existing Conditions
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HeadCount Sustainability and Climate Change Update: Signs of Life for Climate Legislation
Some of you have been getting HeadCount’s Sustainability and Climate Change e-newsletter for a while. But for many of you who joined our mailing list when downloading the “Best of Bonnaroo” compilation, this will be the first time. So let me briefly introduce myself: I’m Nicole and every six weeks I’ll hit you with a brief…
Wikileaks Releases Classified Iraq Slaughter Video
Today Wikileaks released an intensely disturbing video of an American Apache helicopter crew killing several Iraqi civilians in 2007 – including a young Reuters journalist and his driver. The video is a remarkably vivid – and rare – document of precisely how the Iraq occupation has been handled for the past several years. What’s even…
Henley, DeVore And The Little Boys Of Summer
The California senatorial race is being played out to the strains of Don Henley songs. In 2008, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a righter-than-right GOP candidate for Barbara Boxer’s seat, thought it would be cute to release “After the Hope of November Is Gone.” DeVore’s not particularly witty blast at Democrats was sung to the tune of…
HeadCount Human Rights Update: Eyes of the World on Darfur
As Sudan, a country notorious for political instability and brutal genocide, prepares for a national election in April, the world will be watching. Since 2003, an estimated 300,000 lives have been lost in Sudan’s ethnic conflict. A new study shows that nearly 80 percent of the casualties have been caused by disease due to “unsanitary [living] conditions with…
Interview: ‘Headz’ Author J. J. Colagrande
Have you ever been to a music festival, looked around, and thought, “I could write a book about this”? Well, a few months ago I noticed a post on my friend’s Facebook wall with a link to a novel called Headz and realized someone had beat us to the punch. Headz features characters you may…