Posted in Uncategorized on April 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
If you have a few minutes and are interested in an intelligent article on the current energy policy in the USA, read this article by Tom Friedman at the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30friedman.html?hp
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Posted in Writing, Society on April 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I’m sure you noticed that during the past few weeks I’ve had some ads lined up along the right side of my web pages. These ads were Google “Adsense” ads — a program that makes it very easy for people like me to place targeted ads on web pages and get paid […]
Posted in US Politics, Energy, US Economy on April 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — Vancouver, WA
According to my bank, my piece of the Economic Stimulus Program — a stupid program from an incompetent federal government that you and I are responsible for by continuing to vote for the bastards — arrived today via electronic banking, zip zip zip, right from “their” account directly into […]
Posted in US Politics, US Economy on April 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 24, 2008 — Vancouver, WA
I can’t get my arms around the concept of some very large numbers. I’m not sure anyone can. When reading about the cost of our military activity in the Middle East, I start seeing the word “trillion” mentioned, and that the total cost of all this could be two […]
Posted in Energy, Lifestyle, Society on April 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Monday, April 21, 2008
(from The Sabbatical Journal)
Increasing costs for food, fuel, air travel, and almost everything we buy is affecting all of us — and it’s really beginning to bite. Gas is approaching $4/gallon, diesel is well over $4. The price of cereal grains is at near record levels. The common denominator in this problem […]
