[From The Blogging of the President] by Stirling Newberry “Lieberman: This is one of the big lies that the people against me are spreading and I’m not going to let them get away with it.” Crooks and Liars has the audio. It is a lie that Joe is Republican Lite – he’s the real thing [...]
Archive For March, 2006
Just Keep Planting
by Adam Khan Author of: Self-Help Stuff That Works When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near an old copper smelter, and the sulfur dioxide that poured out of the refinery had made a desolate wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. When a young visitor [...]
Electric Vehicles, the Cutting Edge Then and Now
[From kuro5hin] By joelado Several years ago I wrote a research paper on alternative fueled vehicles for my master`s degree in business administration. It was titled. “The Future Automobile: A Research Survey of Technology in Zero and Low Emissions Transportation, Its History, Its Recent Technological Origins, the Current State of Technology and Its Feasible Future.” [...]
Is America facing yet another dust bowl?
[From Morris Daily Herals] Conditions similar to those that led to 1930s drought STATE COLLEGE, PA — Accu-Weather.com meteorologists have warned oceanic conditions similar to those that triggered the ruinous “Dust Bowl” drought again appear to be in place. The exceptionally warm Atlantic waters that played a major role in the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, [...]
Dreaming in Petrocolour: The End of Oil Dependency?
[From How to Save the World ] Fig. 1: Projected global production of petroleum and natural gas. Fig. 2: Theoretical projected US petroleum use if Amory Lovins’ Rocky Mountain Institute proposals were fully implemented. Global use is about 4-5x these amounts. Projected global use in 2020 is hence about 120 Mbbl/d or 44 Gbbl/a; compare [...]
Political Satire | News Parody | Fair and Balanced
[From The Specious Report] Bush Approval Rating plunges to record low of 34; advisors reassure President that is 274 Kelvin. Western Union exits telegram business to focus exclusively on money transfers to former Nigerian royalty. Ford, GM and Chrysler boost sales by selling Toyotas, Hondas and Nissans. UPN and The WB Merge to form giant [...]
Taliban-Lite Democracy
[From American Progress Action Fund] In a case that “highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan,” an Afghan named Abdul Rahman “faces a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity 16 years ago.” The Afghan government is under “mounting international pressure” to respect the basic human right of [...]
Op-eds opt-out on women
[From feministing.com] This is some crazy shit. Garance Franke-Ruta at the American Prospect has taken an in-depth look at The New York Times’ Op-Ed page and its history covering abortion issues–it ain’t good. Franke-Ruta found that in the last two years (in which we’ve seen some serious reproductive rights rollbacks) that “not one op-ed discussing [...]
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