The New York Review of Books All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific. There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards [...]
J’s Cafe Nette (via the Anchoress) I asked my good friend COgirl to write a piece about our current energy crisis. She is proficient in the field as she and her husband are engineers who have worked in the field their entire careers. I wish to thank her for taking the time to write this [...]
Los Angeles Times (sent to me by a friend) A San Diego company said Wednesday that it could turn algae into oil, producing a green-colored crude yielding ultra-clean versions of gasoline and diesel without the downsides of biofuel production. The year-old company, called Sapphire Energy, uses algae, sunlight, carbon dioxide and non-potable water to make [...]
WSJ.com A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned “no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” The whole thing is well worth reading. I consider Leiberman an outside choice to be John McCain’s vice presidential candidate. It is very [...]
AFP: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. I would prefer that our government focused on ways to improve our quality of life, rather then [...]
Popular Mechanics Like plenty of other toy guns, the Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster ($40, nerf.com) has a pneumatic pump that’s used to fire off single rounds. But six D batteries turn the hybrid Blaster into a foam-shooting tommy gun—feeding a 25-dart belt through a fully automatic chamber at more than two shots per second. [...]
CNN.com In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the states ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups, sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages between a man and a woman. “There can be no [...]
One place where I break from many conservatives is on immigration. This morning I saw a particularly bad argument from Mark Steyn (via Instapundit) on The Corner on National Review Online When advanced economies admit ever larger numbers of unskilled workers (plus a chain of relatives through “family reunification”), they are importing poverty. The President [...]
washingtonpost.com Soldiers, paramilitary police and civilian rescue workers struggled against rainstorms and fog Tuesday to reach thousands of people trapped under the rubble of schools, hospitals and residences collapsed by Mondays deadly earthquake in central China. The death toll exceeded 12,000 and was expected to rise as rescue efforts continued and the scope of the [...]
I recieved my Kindle yesterday, the e-book reader from Amazon. So far, I love it. It is great for just sitting and reading, the device ‘dissappears’ and after a few minutes it feels just like reading a book, except it is even less intrusive as the page turning is just a twitch of the thumb. [...]
