A conversation on facebook resulted in me calculating the payback time of rooftop PV installations in Maryland. I am a little shocked to discover that they come VERY close to amortizing! That means that in sunnier climes, they most likely *do* amortize! That means that PV might just be ready for primetime FINALLY (after being five years from it ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the issues of the day are SO far screwed that it's impossible to even start with the problems. Every sentence that is publicized has problems that are so numerous and intrinsic that by the time you've unpacked, analyzed, and disposed of the issues in just that one sentence, you've lost the thread of the overall point and problem ( Read more... )

So, today I figured out that, in point of realistic fact, we no longer live in a Federalist nation. That went away with the civil war. Nor do we live in a constitutional representative democracy, that went away with FDR. Nor do we live in a Parliamentary representative democracy. That went away much more recently ( Read more... )

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/15/chinas-black-market-cityRead more... )

So, with the Hobby Lobby decision, birth control, and specifically, emergency contraception has come into the conversation. Again. And, in the course of my travels, I have discovered something ( Read more... )

To all those lamenting the hobby lobby case. 16 of 20 forms of "contraception" are currently covered by hobby lobby. 4 types of "contraception" are excluded. Including "plan B", and other "post event" "contraception". The decision specifically applies to closely held family businesses. It's not an expansion of "corporate personhood", because it is ( Read more... )

So, The way I see it, the Obama administration has perfected a fascinating method.

You distract the public from a scandal... By creating a bigger scandal. Make them forget to pursue high crimes and misdemeanors by committing ever graver crimes. What's amazing is, it's working.http://

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. In it appeared this language:
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"

( a little tl;dr )

I keep seeing the "Walmart is subsidized, because many of their employees receive food stamps" meme ( Read more... )

So, after reaching a crescendo in 2012, it kinda feels to me like the partisan hatred is calming down a little. Does anyone else feel the same way?