Comments on: Dandelion Liberation League

By: pattrice

pattrice — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:49:47 +0000

Ali, look here. There’s a shot of a man in protective gear spraying pesticides at about 1:19. Let me know how your project goes.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:55:19 +0000

ummm… I was wondering if any of you by chance had a video of someone using pesticides or stabbing a weed, i need it for a school project

By: SuperWeed » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading Right Now (#3)

SuperWeed » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading Right Now (#3) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:28:07 +0000

[...] good news is that the dwaddling ways of dog Dandelion led me to have a breakthrough this week. As I’ve mentioned, that book needs to be [...]

By: pattrice

pattrice — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:09:16 +0000

A quick update: On the topic of war profiteering, I wrote, “we might manage to get out of Iraq someday but weâ€™ll be paying them to send their weapons and contractors somewhere else soon enough.” I was thinking Iran, but now we are reading about this alleged escalation of hostilities between Putin and Bush about missile defense shields in Eastern Europe, with a cold war style arms race on the horizon. Am I the only one who thinks that maybe, just maybe, these two neo-fascists beholden to arms manufacturers cooked up the controversy and are pretending to be at odds with each other only to justify an arms race that will benefit their friends? But, then again, maybe we should be relieved. Buying weapons that nobody actually intends to use is less hurtful to people and the planet than cooking up excuses to invade other countries.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:34:01 +0000

I was walking with a friend and her little boys yesterday. Her 3.5 year old picked a dandelion for her. “Here mommy! Here’s a flower for you.”

I was confused as a kid when my mom acted embarassed about our pretty lawn. We had pretty flowers growing in our lawn, which our neighbors didn’t. I didn’t really get why their lawns were “better”. My parents, despite their clear wish for a dandelion-free lawn, refused to “treat” the grass with anything at all. Our lawn was brown in spots, and had flowers in others. We lived on a lake, and they were all too aware of the impacts of the runoff.

I never really thought about that until now, but I guess my parents sort of taught me, on a very small scale, that doing the right thing is more important than being comfortable with the opinions of others.

I love Dandelions, dog and plant varieties!