SOTU
I was underwhelmed. And you?
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 January 2010
How the AIG bailout worked
Chart from the fine folks at Clusterstock, who also brings us news that just-released AIG documents show Goldman was deeply involved in the collapse of AIG. These are the very same documents that the SEC ordered sealed on the utterly…
Commercial air conditioning add-on stores energy as ice during off hours
From CNet Greentech comes news of Ice Energy’s Ice Bear creates ice during hours of lower demand, then uses it to pump cold refrigerant to the air conditioner during the day. The Southern California Public Power Authority says this could…
Yemen. Geography matters. And two unrelated conflicts are happening there now
Curzon at Coming Anarchy explains the history with maps showing that the two conflicts in Yemen are quite separate yet US media (and maybe even our government) doesn’t seem to understand this. There are two major yet unrelated conflicts taking…
30% of Americans are in poverty or close to it
From 2000 – 2008 poverty grew at a rate twice that of population growth. Not surprising, really. During that period, there was a massive transfer of wealth from us to a few elites. Of course, the economy got even worse…