No, I do not refer to cap-and-trade systems for controlling industrial emissions. I speak of an ad I spotted last week for the eco-fabulous Richmond grocer Ellwood Thompson’s, which is offering customers 25 cents off their bills if they walk, bike or take the bus to the store. It’s called the EnviroCredit, and the company’s website hints at more such initiatives to come.
I just had to remark on the ad for Rep. Virgil Goode I just saw while waiting for David Letterman to come on. The voiceover said “Independent-minded. Working for us.” The tagline: “Independent voice.”
By suggesting he might back out of the debate with Obama on Friday without first informing the Obama campaign, McCain seems to be doing anything but “putting politics aside.”
It has been a busy week for former UVA quarterback Peter Lalich. He was first dismissed from the football team, and he is now headed West.
The founder of the Virginia Film Society and the festival’s director for more than a decade heads to Oregon
McCain campaign spokesperson Brian Rogers recently said “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.” Rogers was responding to accusations that the campaign was sinking to new lows with its fabrications about earmarks, bridges to nowhere, and lipstick-wearing pigs.
So a dominant right-wing meme about the mortgage crisis seems to be that it was caused by the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, intended to help minorities achieve home ownership. Apparently this load of bunk has been making the rounds for many months now and was recently amplified by the likes of Neil Cavuto and other talking heads on Fox News.
Today it’s John McCain’s turn. The latest TODAY Show/NBC/Mason-Dixon poll has McCain ahead by three points in Virginia, 47 to 44 percent.
Know what? If you paint the concrete floor of a bus maintenance garage white, it will encourage workers to keep it clean. And you know what else? If you line the hallways of a school with vertical wood planks interspersed with full-length mirrors, it will make students feel like they’re walking in the woods.