Today’s Forum Thread of the Day showcases Bud Cauley’s new Scotty Cameron putter. The flat-stick has garnered plenty of reaction from our members, with the single sight dot proving to be a popular feature on the putter. For more photos, check out the entire thread here. Here are a few posts from the thread, but…
Read moreTupí: A story of indigenous courage and resolve
Just as scars accumulate on the bark of the seringueiras (rubber trees, Hevea Brasiliensis) throughout the Amazon, so do natives carry deep wounds on their bodies dating far back in time. The first industrial threat on a catastrophic scale that befell the Amazon was the Rubber Fever (1879/1912), which burst onto these remote lands and…
Read moreMonetary alchemy: how to turn bad money into good
By now, almost everyone has heard of one or more of the many local currency experiments that have sprung up in various places around the world in recent decades. Many of these have gotten a considerable amount of media attention and support from local government, but none of them has achieved the desired results of…
Read moreMondays Off: Steve’s playing the 2nd assistant again and Knudson hurt his back
Steve gets to tee it up again with the new 2nd assistant today. He also gets to tell an embarrassing story about himself and a hotel bathroom. Knudson is old and hurt his back while on vacation and Steve still thinks he is a sandbagger. Check out the full podcast on SoundCloud below, or click here…
Read moreThe 6 best #GolfWRX photos on Instagram today (7.9.19)
In this segment, we’ll be taking a look at some of the best #GolfWRX tagged photos on Instagram. In case you aren’t already, there’s a whole load of action going on at our page, so follow us: @golfwrx Let’s get to it then, here are six of the best #GolfWRX photos from the past 24 hours….
Read moreWith temperatures at record highs, Europe urgently needs a Green New Deal
For the second year in a row, Europe is reeling from a once-in-a-century heatwave. Temperatures in the German city of Bernburg, near Leipzig, hit 39.6 degrees Celsius last week—nearly double their average for June. In the town of Gallargues-le-Montueux, France, temperatures soared to 45.9 degrees, breaking historical records. The last time Europe was this hot,…
Read moreLiberal boogeyman George Soros and right-wing billionaire Charles Koch have teamed up to stop ‘endless war.’
Say the name George Soros to any die-hard Republican and they’ll probably recoil in disgust. The Hungarian-born billionaire has donated billions to progressive causes throughout his life and is the subject of wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracies spread by conservatives. Soros has been falsely accused by the right of everything from paying people to participate in the 2017…
Read moreThe tax haven hidden in plain sight – England's farmland
The words “tax haven” tend to conjure up images of palm-fringed Caribbean beaches and whitewashed buildings covered in the brass plates of shell companies. What might surprise many is that there is a tax haven sitting under everyone’s noses, here in England. It’s all perfectly legal and above board too. That tax haven is farmland….
Read moreAcademics come out on strike against austerity in Estonia
Recent academic strikes in Tartu and Tallinn show that staff in Estonian universities have the determination to fight for a long overdue increase in funding. The strikes at Estonia’s two centres of higher education and research were a direct response to a state budget announcement in which the higher education sector was once again sidelined….
Read moreJoane: Plastic is killing us in the Amazon
How much more plastic waste could the Amazon basin take before collapsing? How much more unconscious aggression? How much more environmental degradation? A plastic bag, a polyethylene bottle, a piece of polyurethane… these are all ordinary, cheap, disposable objects. Their daily use is measured in billions of units throughout the planet. However, after one single…
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