Month January 2009

Biomass could supply world power and fuel

Two German professors suggest that biomass could produce all the energy and fuel for the planet if fast-growing trees were planted on degraded land not used for food production. Thus, we would have sufficient fuel and electricity from biomass without…

Junk accounting from Madoff victims

Several organizations that lost large sums of money with Madoff are now pretending their losses aren’t as bad as previously thought because profits Madoff said they made never existed in the first place. Sorry, but this is Looney Tunes accounting.…

Dave Barry views 2008

As always, Barry is hilarious. A few excerpts: July Obama, having secured North and South America, flies to Germany without using an airplane and gives a major speech — speaking English and German simultaneously — to 200,000 mesmerized Germans, who…

When two tribes go to war

Part of a photo by Richard Searle of the Manchester, England protest (from Socialist Unity, who has continuing coverage of the worldwide protests) Is violence is the tool of the incompetent? Anytime two parties with disagreements move from lobbing angry…