Day May 15, 2007

Chrysler to be sliced and diced

Oligopoly Watch explains how Chrysler “is likely to end up in the chop shop” with the money money guys who bought it planning to “suck the company dry.” No matter that thousands will lose their jobs or that the resultant…

The battle is over and the hippies won

You know it’s true. All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling?…

Federal loans for coal plants

A Depression-era loan program for rural areas is providing billions in loans for coal-burning plants to be built. Yuck. Coal is a massive producer of greenhouse gases. This subsidy needs to be killed, and killed fast. Make it for renewable…