Two Prius batteries in an electric motorcycle
It did the quarter mile at a speed equal to a Tesla Roadster. Autobloggreen has more.
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 April 2011
Britain jails extremist who burned Koran
A convicted racist who burned a Koran in front of city centre shoppers has been jailed for 70 days after a judge described the act as “theatrical bigotry”. He is a member of the virulently racist and arguably fascist English…
Small bank exec indicted for money laundering. No big banks yet
The vice chairman of SunFirst Bank, a small bank with four branches in southern Utah, was released from jail Monday after surrendering his passport. He will stand trial on federal money laundering charges for using the bank to process money…
Guilty of thought crimes at Daily Kos
A diarist on Daily Kos, tmax, dared to suggest that Obama should start his own party, a Progressive Party, no less, one that would be free of party insiders and actually Get Stuff Done. He was of course forced to…
Underclasses can’t be white or exist in America, right?
From the introduction to Rainbow Pie. A Redneck Memoir, by Joe Bageant. The United States has always maintained a white underclass — citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic shocks through the…