"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From Synergic Earth News Had the Soviet Union, the weaker of the two great powers of the second half of the last century, simply imploded first, while the U.S., enwreathed in a cloud of self-congratulation, was almost unbeknownst to itself…
Not only can shipping containers be used in a multitude of ways to create housing, they are piling up the thousands at ports, since it’s cheaper to build new ones than ship them back, so they are freely available and…
If anyone doubts the problems of US infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a…
From Wikipedia Northridge earthquake, 1994. Magnitude 6.7. Equal to 5.6 megatons Sichuan earthquake, 2008. Magnitude 7.9. Equal to 600 megatons The Richter Scale is logarithmic. Thus, an 8.0 can be hugely more destructive than a 7.0. I was in L.A.…
From a review of Spies for Hire in DailyKos You won’t read the words “ruling class” in Spies for Hire, and I’m sympathetic, because few writers who want to be taken seriously will unhesitatingly employ those words in public discourse…