Month January 2008

The candidates on global warming

The Hartford Courant provides a useful comparison of the global warming policies of the presidential candidates. Obama favors the most governmental spending for R&D, something I strongly favor too. His plan also seems the most comprehensive. Romney and Paul are…

Floating prisons

This is the Vernon C. Bain floating prison barge, still in use in New York City. Subtopia has another of their trademark long and fascinating articles, this one on floating prisons of all types. Their prose can be positively hypnotic,…

Too funny!

From Lenin’s Tomb Apparently, Iranian boats “threatened” American ships. In other news, a passing whale was threatened by a sardine. Rumors that the sardine had WMDs strapped to his gills proved unfounded.

U.S. recession, worst “in a while”

That’s the opinion of Jim Rogers, legendary investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros. “It’s going to be one of the worst recessions we’ve had in a while because we had so many excesses going into it”…

Hillary emulates the neocons

Arianna: “Clinton and her surrogates are attacking from every direction, hoping something will stick … let’s take a look at the dirty laundry list.” She’s trying to attack Obama for being both too liberal and too conservative. Sickening, isn’t it?…