March 2009
9 posts
Discussion about a gas tax. →
I think it’s about time to have a significant gas tax. Not just 5 cents a gallon.
Can't wait for the rain
The torn fabric of humanity
Just hanging out at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth and came to realize that the fabric of our society is completely at odds with humanity. The breadth of the disfunction is profound. It crosses disciplines, media, indeed even life functions. It’s profound. So I had to write about it to remember.
Here are the triggers to this realization:
First, the profoundly awful space - the Hopkins...
US treatment of prisoners. A vile chapter in our... →
What we can say with certainty, in the wake of the Red Cross report, is that the United States tortured prisoners and that the Bush administration, including the president himself, explicitly and aggressively denied that fact. We can also say that the decision to torture, in a political war with militant Islam, harmed American interests by destroying the democratic and Constitutional reputation of...
AIG Financial Services division destroys the world... →
Oh, they’re afraid of a “brain drain.”
Just to elaborate a little bit: the smart people who destroyed the world economy by selling and reselling credit default swaps are needed to save AIG. Well, if they broke it, let’s pay them millions of dollars in bonuses to fix it.
I want to know who they are, and I want them to be in jail.
Urban Projections & Wind Generator →
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