Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 23:36 - Category: Renewable energy, Wind turbines ;
They will have 260 ft. blades and be attached offshore to giant spar buoys thus eliminating many environmental concerns since they are not anchored to the sea bottom.
Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 18:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates.Five states — Vermont, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut and Delaware — now spend as much as or more on corrections as on higher education.
Sigh. Yeah, that’ll really help the US stay competitive.
Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 18:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s time the US did so too.
Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 11:45 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: Clinton, Obama;
NY Times reports unnamed Clinton associates say she’s resigned to losing and will drop out and endorse Obama next week. Which is no big surprise. All the current storm and fury signifies nothing except that she expects (and probably should get) a plum post in the Obama Administration or maybe be VP.
The Telegraph UK is reporting Clinton will be offered a “dignified exit“, a place in Obama’s cabinet as Health secretary or a major role in steering health care legislation through Congress, but that she will not be offering the VP post.
In a few weeks, the current supposed irreparable split will be forgotten, the Democratic Party unified, and Obama will continue to be ahead in the polls for the general election.
Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 07:48 - Category: Blogging, environment ;
Best Green Blogs is “a comprehensive resource for all things green and sustainable in the blogosphere.”
There’s hundreds of sites listed here, with a short description of each, and you can view by category too. Highly useful.
Bob Morris @ Jun 1st 2008 02:34 - Category: Socialism Tags: Coit Tower mural;
This mural gives a flavor of just how unsettled things were in the US during the Depression. It’s part of a public mural completed in 1934 at city-owned Coit Tower in San Francisco. The newspaper says “Home Foreclosures. Banks refuse US home loan bonds. Oil magnates arrested.” The man in green is pulling a copy of Das Kapital by Karl Marx off the bookshelf.
My great-aunt once told me when she and her Army husband were returning from China in 1933 friends told them not to settle in San Francisco because they were afraid there would be a revolution there.
It is, I think, a tribute to the free and open spirit of San Francisco that this mural survived the McCarthy Era, the Cold War, and the neocons.
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