Month May 2007

Getting desperate

An apparently serious op-ed in today’s Hartford Courant says, let’s solve the troop shortage in the military by recruiting out of prisons, because, y’know, the inmates are just sitting around doing nothing anyway. I’m guessing the Pentagon, even with their…

The Ft. Dix Six

The organic emergence of terrorist groups, whose only connection to al Qaeda is through the media, shouldn’t come as a surprise. We will see this again and again. One reason is that in open source warfare, the barriers to entry…

Subprime contagion spreads

Lending Tree just laid off 20% of its workers with a company spokesperson saying the subprime correction has now spread to all categories of loans. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago the talking heads were saying the contagion wouldn’t…

Clean power from sludge and grease

Chevron will be using a fuel cell plant to generate clean power from restaurant grease and wastewater sludge, which otherwise would end up in landfills generating methane, a greenhouse gas. Now the methane will be used to create the electricity…