Day May 3, 2006

3.29 a gallon

That’s for self-serve regular at the corner station. It’s not just that greedy pig oil companies are exploiting this for their own gain and screw everyone else, it’s also that supplies of cheap oil are running out at precisely the…

Dubya’s lost his mojo

Bush leverage with Russia, Iran, China falls as oil prices rise. President George W. Bush, already weakened at home by the soaring cost of oil, is finding that it’s also eroding his ability to achieve his foreign-policy goals. Iran says…

Geographically challenged

Six out of 10 young Americans cannot find Iraq on a map It gets worse – almost half can’t locate the state of Mississippi either. Hmmm, if they can’t find Iraq, maybe they can’t find Iran either – and then…

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Check Sphere, a quite powerful, easy to use blog search engine. It also has a handy bookmarklet for searching for related pages from whatever page you happen to be on. Sphere is new, still a pup, yet search results are…