Month April 2008

Obligatory adorable kittens photo

These are our five foster kittens, born here five weeks ago and almost ready to be adopted. They are doing fine, happily roughhousing with each other, and eating wet food. Sadly, their mom died a few days ago from pneumonia.…

How did Clintons ‘earn’ $15m from Burkle firm?

Is this why the Clinton’s delayed as long as they did on releasing their tax returns? Because this does not pass the smell test. Bloomberg “Most people who make that much money work for it,” said Yale University tax law…

Biofuel from carbon capture

Rather than capture carbon and somehow store it, a new plan is being explored. Use that carbon to supply algae farms which will then convert the carbon into biofuel. “The CO2 problem becomes an opportunity” for algae farms, Mettais said.…

Zimbabwe and Mugabe

Probably the only reason Mugabe hasn’t come down with an iron fist is because he can’t. The election results were so obviously against him that even his supporters seem split on what do do. And he’s old and probably fading…