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Some teenage boys called The Palm Beach Post newsroom Sunday evening to take credit for the prank – one they said was sanctioned by their parents. They said they were acting in retaliation after they lost their trust funds to the accused swindler. Just wait until Halloween when they smash pumpkins in his driveway. [...] Caterpillar, Sprint, Pfizer announce huge layoffs. In a welcome reversal from the do-nothing days of Bush’s EPA, new EPA administrator Lisa Jackson revoked an air permit granted by the Bushies for a coal plant in South Dakota. The Sierra Club said “EPA is signaling that it is back to enforcing long-standing legal requirements fairly and consistently nationwide.” Indeed. Obama directs EPA [...] Reader Joe Hartley comments on our post asking why did so many people put all their money with Madoff. An old Midwestern saying: pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered. Too much hoggish behavior of late. I also fail to understand why people did not diversify, except that they were, well, hoggish. They sure [...] Cara Scissoria has twenty three new greeting cards online now, including this Valentine’s Day card that reflects Cupid having to cope with our teetering economy. (I’m webmaster of the site. Yes, it’s old school now, but in a month or so, we will be transforming it into a snazzy new ecommerce site powered by [...] Not only does Waste Management, “the largest garbage hauler and landfill operator in North America”, plan to convert landfill methane into electricity, they also will run some of their trucks on CNG produced from that methane. A crucial point, they aren’t doing this to be good citizens, they’re doing it because it will save them [...] Bishop Williamson is worse than previously thought. He’s a 9/11 Truther, violently homophobic, anti-modernist, thinks women should not go to colleges or wear pants, in addition to being a Holocaust-denier. From Andrew Sullivan, a gay Catholic And the Pope who decided that celibate, faithful gay men cannot be allowed into seminaries has now opened the [...] In honor of our following post about John Thain being fired. “Because you’re not saving a life, you’re saving a lifestyle.” John Thain was fired this week as CEO of Merrill Lynch after zillions more in garbage assets were found on their books by BofA, who bought the company last September. Thain apparently had been a busy guy since the sale, whining that he should get a huge bonus because he arranged it (conveniently forgetting [...] Sainbury’s, a major supermarket chain in the UK, plans to convert all food waste into biofuel rather than the current practice of dumping in it landfills. The biofuel will then be used to create electricity. Further, they plan to end all landfill dumping by the end of the year. Wow. This is a double win, [...] |  | ||||
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