An excellent article in Vanity Fair about General David Petraeus, the commander who turned around the war in Iraq in the face of considerable opposition at home in the US.
Let’s hope he turn things around in Afghanistan as well.
Category: World
Human Achievement Hour
Since my lights are powered by nuclear fusion1, I will not be turning them off tomorrow night.
Instead I will be turning on all that I can, in order to celebrate human ingenuity and technology.
If you really care about the earth, why don’t you spend a month naked in the woods, without fire, which, after all, produces carbon emissions!
- The sun heats up the ocean, whence water vapor forms clouds, which precipitate rain onto the mountains, which runs into a turbine and powers my lights. ↩
Evil Corporations Taking Over The World
The nefarious corporate behemoth Glaxo-Smith-Kline, whose dastardly deeds we’ve covered before, has added yet another horrendous entry in the ledger of terrible deeds that oppress the poor and downtrodden of the world.
It has put all its knowledge and patents of chemicals that are useful in killing malaria parasites in the public domain.
When will the madness end?
Morons to the Right of Them, Morons to the Left of Them
Apparently eager to compete with the vile Pat Robertson (but I repeat myself), actor Danny Glover blames the Haiti earthquake on you not using cloth shopping bags.