Month December 2010

Portugal to install pumped hydro

Hydroelectric power has been around for a long time. With pumped hydro, water is pumped up to a reservoir during times of excess power production. When power is needed, the water is released to power turbines and create electricity, and…

US Navy preparing for climate change

Rear Admiral David Titley, director of the US Navy climate change task force, sees failed states with millions of angry migrants, as well as the Bering Strait becoming as important as the Straits of Hormuz. The Pentagon fully believes that…

Michael Vick wants a dog

Michael Vick hung dogs that performed badly in the dog fighting ring “by placing a nylon cord over a 2 X 4 that was nailed to two trees located next to the big shed.” He also “drowned approximately three dogs…

Joe Biden is a pompous ass

VP Biden says Assange is a “high tech terrorist.” Really? Terrorism is generally understood to include the deliberate targeting of civilians and noncombatants for death or injury. Thus, Assange is not even remotely a terrorist by any definition and Biden…

No Labels reeks of astroturf

No Labels is run by two major lobbyists with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg and other elites. I slammed them last week for their mushy ill-defined centrism. The New York Times just slammed them too. The notion that civility and…