Diesel price soaring
Sue has a VW New Beetle diesel. She says the price of diesel has been been going up 5-10 cents a day for the past few days. This impacts everyone, because much of what we buy and use is trucked…
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 March 2008
Florida. Hundreds seeking housing vouchers turned away.
Police in riot gear forced “a mass of women nursing babies, pushing strollers” to leave after applications ran out. Some got in line nine hours before the doors opened. Such demand for housing vouchers is almost certainly a result of…
Tight US immigration forces outsourcing: Bill Gates
US high-tech companies are being forced to outsource more jobs overseas because of outdated restrictions on immigration, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Congress Wednesday. Gates, echoing a longstanding complaint from the technology sector, told a congressional panel that the US…
My brain just exploded
That’s what Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, says about this new technology. From the YouTube description. it’s “a neckband that intercepts nerve signals allows you to talk on the phone without emitting a sound.” Yes, you read that right. People…
Winter Soldier starts today
The Winter Soldier testimony by Iraq Veterans Against the War starts today at 7pm EDT in D.C. How to watch. KPFA and WarComesHome will have streaming audio. Streaming video will be provided by IVAW using QuickTime. On-demand video will be…