Buying local is a great first start - but, there's more that needs to be done. Break up the big monopolies.

As long as the corporations running the networks like your politics - and as long as they depend on access to you to keep viewership up and ad revenue coming in - then you can waltz in anytime you want - spew as many lies as you want - and no "news" person will ever point it out. At most, a network may allow on a third-party "strategist" from the other side who will call out the lie. And we can't expect these campaigns to police themselves - and not lie - any more than we can expect big multinational corporations to give a damn about keeping jobs in America. The main way We The People can know the truth is through the gatekeepers known as the media - and without them - so much for having an informed electorate - one of the most important part of a healthy democracy. It's time to bring back news in the public interest. And time to promote REAL journalism - journalism that puts the facts over profits and access.

Next month - the Guinness book of World Records will be on hand in the Bay City to officiate what could be the world's largest gathering of naked Santa Clauses. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Santacon - an event in San Francisco in which people dress up like St. Nick - get drunk - and commit blatant acts of debauchery around the city - hundreds are expected to turn out in their Santa hats and boots...and nothing else

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, global CO2 was around 280 ppm - where it had been for hundreds of thousands of years. Guess where it is now?