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The wheel weaves as the wheel wills..
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YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
Matt Yglesias blogged about a campaign to protest the Obama Administration's decision to delay promulgation of new greenhouse gas regulations by the audacious act of driving the speed limit. Here I thought all this time I was just saving money on gasoline, when I've actually been protesting! The kicker, though, is when he says:
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The wisdom of Gerald Ford
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have" --Not Thomas Jefferson
Seeing as our government has been powerful enough to take from us everything we have for at least a century and a half, isn't it about time it got working on the giving us everything we want part?
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"The Chicago Mercantile exchange data indicates that gold and silver (paper) futures contracts traded on the Comex, reveal that about 100 times more paper gold ounces trade on this exchange every year than all the physical gold that exists in the world, and somewhere around 160 times paper silver ounces trade every year than all the physical silver ( Read more... ) -
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Here's a quote from a recent interview with Dmitry Orlov over at Transition Voice.
LC: And do you feel like while this whole debate rages on about debt (ED: this interview took place about two week before the debt ceiling deadline), and increasing the debt limit, and all the machinations in Washington, and all the theatrics, that there’s any real ( Read more... ) -
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"People in different geographical locales can harbor different microbial ecosystems. Last year scientists reported evidence that the Japanese microbiome has acquired a gene for a seaweed-digesting enzyme from a marine bacterium. The gene, not found in the guts of North Americans, may aid in the digestion of sushi wrappers. The idea that people in ( Read more... ) -
$10/gallon gasoline can't come soon enough
I was unable to continue debt ceiling follies due to the fact that a family member was hit by a car while biking home from work. Several weeks ago one of my coworkers was also hit by a car while bike commuting. I wish peak oil would hurry up and deliver us from this automotive menace.
