In a recession, spending by businesses in general goes down - for just about everything. So of course, companies which sell tangible hard items are hurt. Their saving grace is that hard items do wear out - cars eventually fall apart, computer power supplies die. So at some point, folks have to come back to […]
The rush to embrace “biofuels” in the US is an incredible scam.
The main rush here is to produce ethanol from corn. The idea is, if we grow a bunch of corn, and convert it to ethanol, and mix the ethanol with gas to put in our cars, we will be “on the road” to becoming […]
In the Washington Post on Sunday there was one of the most ridiculous articles I have read! Robert Bryce claims that the idea of energy independence for the US is a myth. Here are what he calls the myths, and how I would answer his absurd arguments:
1. What he calls a myth: “Energy Independence will […]
Here are some funny, ambiguous, or otherwise tortured headlines and such from Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct:
Child’s Stool Great for Use in Garden
Stud Tires Out
Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan
Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped
Columnist Gets Urologist in Trouble with His Peers
Yoko Ono will talk about […]
Jared Diamond has an OP-ED piece in the New York Times where he discusses the number 32. The number 32 measures the relative standard of living between average folks in the developed world (US, W. Europe, Japan, Australia, etc) and those in the developing world. He says that the average person in the developed […]
Why is it so difficult to create a voting machine which has been vetted by any and all qualified persons who want to; which utilizes open, transparent and non-proprietary technologies; which records and tabulates votes accurately; which is secure and relatively tamperproof and which makes any tampering evident; which produces a paper/hard-copy audit trail […]
I hadn’t been to Cambridge, MA in a year or so, and just today spent half the day roaming the few bookstores which remain. The Coop is one of them - and I discovered a bunch of books which look interesting, one way or another. The following are 1-minute reviews based on my first impressions […]
The very first post is always special - like the first dollar you earned from your business, or your very first love.
Not so sure what there is to say, other than to thank the cast and crew of my billions of ancestors (human and non-human) who have preceded me and successfully reproduced so as to […]
