Month May 2009

High Speed Rail links

The Infrastructurist has highly useful and informative links about high speed rail in the US. Yes, HSR will be expensive. But when completed, it would revolutionize transportation. Imagine being able to go from, say, S.F. to L.A. in couple of…

Sue gets her final grades

While Sue did graduate last week, she hadn’t gotten her final grades yet. Today she did. For her Masters in Taxation at Golden Gate University, which was a 2 year program jammed into nine impossibly intense months, she got 2…

The terror plane conspiracy theory

Remember that presidential jet that buzzed Manhattan? You probably thought it was just an idiotic mistake ordered by incompetents, right? Not according to some, says Clusterstock, as they detail the various conspiracy theories. They wanted to hide Obama’s birth certificate…

The Destruction of Buddhism, Part 2

Part two of a series written by Dr. Sharif Abdullah. For most of us in the world, when we think about the term “Buddhism” we picture the smiling face of the Dalai Lama. Indeed, for many of us, his stance…