I was just thinking the other day about how just a few years ago people were called traitors for criticizing the President and today most anything goes. Name-calling, insults, threats of violence. Tom Tomorrow provides a short summary of how we’ve gone nuts.
Robert Rapier of the Oil Drum lays out what he calls the pretenders of alternative energy: hydrogen, cellulosic ethanol, algae, first generation biodiesel, and other schemes such as free energy from water. Interesting comments follow from those who are promoting some of these alternatives.
Are you aware of your hyoid bone? It’s the bone that Morenci football player Zac Johnson broke during training camp a few weeks ago at the University of Michigan. According to Wikipedia, it’s the only bone in the human skeleton not articulated to any other bone. It’s just held in place by ligaments.
A bright spot in the economy: arms sales to other countries. We’re arming the world and I’m sure that makes you feel safer:
The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
Citing a congressional study released on Friday, the Times said the United States was involved in 68.4 percent of the global sales of arms.
For the first time in 60 years, Florida’s population declined. It was only by 58,000 people, but there’s concern about whether it might signal a trend.
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