Category: Social/Environmental
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Merry Christmas
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.Kenneth Deffeyes
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Wikipedia needs your help
How much do you use Wikipedia? I know that I have a bookmark for it and probably look up something at least once per day.Will you match my $25.00 USD Christmas present to the Wikipedia Foundation?Do you remember what it was like before this information as constantly available at your fingertips? Haven’t you saved at…
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Should we bailout Detroit?
Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he’d like to do national service and run a car company for a year.Tom Friedman
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Department of Energy
Quietly we go. Sheep to slaughter.Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever! ON US! …Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No? Didn’t think so. Bottom line… we’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the…
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Choices
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
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Love Story
I will seek and find you.I shall take you to bed and have my way with you.I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan.I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop.I will exhaust you to the point that you will be relieved when I’m finished with…
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Red Meat Nation
I was listening to the Bob Edwards Show the other day, and he had Jeffrey Goldberg on talking about his article in Atlantic, The Things He Carried, about what a joke airport security is. Jill had just subscribed to Atlantic with some frequent flyer miles, so I decided to see if the issue we had…