Reader KN in the comments to my John Rich “They’re Shutting Detroit Down” post refers to a World Socialist Web Site article on Rich, saying it has an interesting take on the song. I’d say it takes a standard doctrinaire Marxist view, which is that since Rich is right wing all this must be suspect [...]
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Fog machine juice Speaker Pelosi suddenly recalls she knew about the Harman wiretap after all. Rep. Harman now decries wiretap authority she happily voted for. Do I have that right? If Pelosi was picked up on the wiretap, then they must have been monitoring the other person. Or not. Hard to know what’s going [...] Researchers have modified baker’s yeast using recombinant DNA so it breaks down agricultural wastes into ethanol faster and easier than previously, something that could be a major breakthrough. The chief researcher and company president said she’s been working on this for three decades and expects commercial production within three years. This is not ethanol from [...] When the US economy catches a cold, Detroit ends up in the emergency room and Flint goes on life support. Rather than wait out the inevitable decline, Flint is thinking about simply moving residents from dead quadrants of the city to the remaining viable areas, then demolishing those areas and letting them return to forest. [...] Earthlink is having a network-wide outage today, on Earth Day. Via Peak Energy Antifreeze as sold now is sweet, and a teaspoon is lethal to humans. Spouses have used it to murder each other. A simple solution, as proposed by Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), is to add a bittering agent to antifreeze it to make it taste horrible. The legislation, entitled the Antifreeze Bittering Act, would require [...] It helps to have your story straight else you might trip all over your own inconsistencies, as Rep. Jane Harman just found out on NPR. Proposed JPL tidal power system Rather than creating the electricity underwater then send it to land on expensive, easily corroded underwater cables, this new tidal power system from NASA “uses water motion to generate a high-pressure liquid rather than electricity. That liquid is then transported to shore and used to produce electricity on land.” [...] |
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