Castro St. store window. San Francisco
The sign says “Be honest, does this dress make me look gay?”
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day June 30, 2008
This Brave Nation. Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein
From FireDogLake. The final discussion in the This Brave Nation series is up — between Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein — and like all the others, it is fascinating. And inspiring. But, in this case, there is also a moment…
Hay is up 76% in nine months
That’s what Asymptotic Life discovered when they went to buy more hay for their goats. The increase is due to the drought, which has cut supply, and oil prices, which has increased production costs. Those tractors run on diesel. So…
Financial markets worldwide getting shaky
I was emailing a friend recently about the stock market. He thinks the markets are “totally divorced from the reality of the time” and in many ways he’s right. They exist in a bizarre other universe, seemingly not affecting the…
Crude today is dirt cheap: Matthew Simmons
Matthew Simmons is founder and CEO of Simmons and Co, an investment bank to the energy industry. He says the Tata Nano at $2400 is the future of cars, that the US needs to get off its ravenous appetite for…