Quote of the Day
“You’re supposed to imagine the evil masterminds as Bolsheviks, not bankers.” – Eugene Robinson in WaPo.
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.
Month October 2011
Jimmie Rodgers. Travelin’ Blues 1931
According to music historians “At a time when hillbilly music was emerging and consisted of old time music with a fiddler or guitar player, and singers who all sounded alike, Rodgers brought a distinctive, colorful personality and a rousing vocal…
Scottish offshore wind farms take 5GW step forward
New lease agreements could lead to a whopping 5GW increase in wind power off Scotland, which is a serious amount of power indeed, probably enough for 2-3 million Scottish homes. Meanwhile our own country, champion of renewable energy that it…
Congratulations NIMBYs, you’ve probably killed Cape Wind
Take a bow, Kennedy clan and the rest of you phony squeaky green environmentalists around Cape Cod who support clean energy as long as you don’t have to look at an icky wind turbine way distant in the ocean. Oh…
Our crumbling infrastructure. Arizona vs. Utah and Nevada
I-15 goes south through Utah, crossing into Arizona for 29 miles through the spectacular, steep, sometimes dangerous Virgin River Gorge, before entering Nevada. Mesquite is the first Nevada city with Vegas just 80 miles away. But the bridges in the…