Month February 2005

Had the penguins been watching SpongeBob?

Gay penguins resist ‘aversion therapy’ Attempts by a Germany zoo to “convert” its gay penguins to heterosexuality have failed the zoo’s director said Friday. The Bremerhaven Zoo had imported four female penguins from Sweden which it hoped would split up…

Global warming in the boardrooms

U.S. companies face record number of global warming shareholder resolutions. New York State, New York City and Connecticut pension funds join labor, foundation, religious and other filers. Oil and gas companies, electric power producers, real estate firms, manufacturers, financial institutions…

The Demo-Greens and the $250,000 grants

(When our server crashed, we lost two weeks of blog entries. This is a summation of posts concerning the collapse of the Green Party and the $250,000 post-2004 election grants to foundations staffed with Cobb loyalists.) If anyone has more…

Thugs in high places

Isen blog, which usually covers telco issues from a libertarian viewpoint, found this article on Negroponte. John Negroponte in Honduras Torture, especially when my country does it and helps others do it, ties my stomach in knots when I think…