I have to believe that we might be acting just a bit overly alarmist over the swine flu craze that sweeping the nation. As I post this, I understand there have been fewer than a hundred deaths in the world, but the masses are in a state of panic.
On the other hand, “on average in [...]
How to fix the Car Industry
Disclaimer: This probably won’t actually fix the car industry, but it makes sense to me as a direction.We’ve got a great mass of industry still left in the U.S. but they’re making products that do not make sense in the economically- and energy-challenged world that we’re living in. My not-especially-brilliant-but-sensible [...]
The Globe and Mail offer this article: Behold, the trends that will unchain us from the office. The author speaks of a crazy future only 10 years from now:
By 2017, knowledge-based jobs will be free to move anyplace. “We’ll take it for granted that you can go anywhere and get wireless Internet access,” Mr. Cooper [...]
Anna Nicole Smith’s baby has a known father. This is apparently the only news today. Or at least it’s the only thing that’s flashing on the plasma screen in the hotel lobby on the Headline Prime channel. Oh! the things I miss… The checkout aisle at Dominic’s informed me that Jolie and Tom are breaking [...]
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On Monday nights I attend an EnAct small group meeting. Last week we talked about energy, and we happen to have an energy worker as a group member whose insight into these things is really valuable. Tuesday nights I’m part of a Sustain Dane study group that is looking at The Natural Step framework [...]
There is a level of laziness in this country, where, when confronted with too many difficult choices or options for action, we tend to shut down and simply choose what’s easiest. Capitalism relies on this in order to sell us bad choices (the default choice in a capitalistic society is almost always the poorer one). [...]
This is a pretty well-presented post (for Craigslist’s rants and raves anyway). I’d like to take credit for it, but cannot. Someone else did a fine job with it.
Just wanted to put some facts out there:
It is estimated Saddam Hussein killed 600,000 civilians during his ~8000 day reign, an average of 75 per day.
http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=2400&msp=1242
The 2003-present [...]
I am a biker. And as a biker, I sincerely believe more public subsidies should be spent on public transportation, walking (sidewalks), and biking (bike paths), than should be spent on roads and highways. Why? Because bikes are safer than cars. Doesn’t seem right, does it. It seems to go against common sense. But let’s [...]
Exxon/Mobil reported record profits of about $40 billion in 2006. Shell’s was over $25 billion. If they were state-owned companies and profits went to the U.S. government, it would add over $215 per person ($866 per household of 4) to the U.S. coffers.
It averages out to every one of the 300 million men, women, and [...]
I was lamenting to a friend about the cold this morning when I realized I had a bit of The Little Red Hen story going on — maybe that’s not the right story. I’d said that I didn’t like the cold, but I really liked the snow, and the frozen lake. I guess I’d been [...]
