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A man was arrested on federal charges in Alaska after arranging with to have sex with a six year old boy who he would dress up in a Spiderman costume. Sounds like an especially deranged South Park episode, doesn’t it? Former UN weapons inspector and early Iraq War opponent Scott Ritter was recently convicted [...] In both cases, protesters are being slaughtered. Yet only in Libya did the US intervene. This happened after the protesters picked up guns. Within a week they called for a No Fly Zone which immediately was instituted. It’s all quite curious, almost like it was planned in advance. Contrast Libya with Syria, where Assad [...] Fredrik Broden for Newsweek The layoffs and firings have hit the managerial and professional classes. Newsweek Once college-educated workers hit 45, notes a post on the professional-finance blog Calculated Risk, “if they lose their job, they are toast.” The article describes the anguish and soul-searching that goes for this strata of unemployed workers, [...] Locating algae farms in carefully selected areas can drastically reduce the amount of water needed. Further, algae grown in this way could replace 17% of our imported oil. They want to do it at utility-scale and use this new clean energy rather than traditional dirty power as a way to reduce pollution during the summer air conditioning season. Hmm, maybe they could generate power from the methane in the landfills too. Why some Evangelicals hate Jesus. The prophet Amos said Israelites thought they were worshiping God, but they weren’t. Americans spent $16 billion last year on online poker, more than they spent on going to the movies. Poker player and journalist Marc Cooper says the government should legalize, regulate, and tax online poker rather than trying to shut it down. Because like Prohibition, they’ll never succeed. As for “protecting the public from the [...] “A friend came around tried to clean up this town His ideas made some people mad He trusted his crowd So he spoke right out loud And they lost the best friend they had” Boeing’s new 787 plant in South Carolina will be powered primarily by 18,000 solar panels on the roof of the mammoth facility. They will use renewable energy credits to purchase any needed renewable energy. Production will start this summer. |  | ||||
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