Posts Tagged ‘global’

The politics of the energy crisis

July 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance: Oil – The Democrats absolutely [...]

Al Gore gets a Nobel

October 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Al Gore got his Nobel.  I knew he would.  Pandering to the latest craze with glitz and high-production costs usually gets the headlines.  The Nobel committee are no different.  The award named for the man that has led to more man-made deaths on Earth going to a man for making an obviously flawed movie recommending [...]

10 Most Polluted places in the world

October 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country: Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities; Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery [...]

Medicare for All

October 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]