This is inventive, if nothing else: San Francisco, a leader in urban recycling, is preparing to enlist its canine population for a first in the United States: converting dog poop into energy. Norcal Waste Systems Inc., the city’s garbage company, plans to test collection carts and biodegradable bags in a city-center park popular with dog [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Really Alternative Fuels
Posted in Environment, Science on February 23, 2006 |
Iraq Deteriorating
Posted in Iraq on February 23, 2006 |
Things are getitng very bad: With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, some Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame. (Video: More on the attack) The violence — many of the 90 attacks on Sunni mosques were carried out by Shiite militias — seemed to push [...]
More on Culture, Race, Economics, and Violent Crime
Posted in Culture, Economics, Politics on February 22, 2006 | 10 Comments »
I’m woefully overdue in writing a response to this Kevin Baker essay (pack an overnight bag, you’ll be reading until tomorrow), in which he sets out to show that the “welfare state” is largely responsible for [add]fueling a culture which exacerbates[/add] the plight of poor urban African-Americans. I’d initially toyed with the idea of not [...]
Kill the Turkeys, Ducks, and Chickens*
Posted in I do too have a life on February 22, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Apparently the State of Tennessee failed to notice that I’m a registered Democrat, and issued me a CCW permit. If the thought of me packing doesn’t make you consider gun control, not much will. * Double-bonus points for catching the reference, and Google is cheating.
I’m a couple days late with this, but Dr. Biobrain has the best President’s Day post: In honor of President’s Day, I just thought I’d take this opportunity to drop all the pretense and for once be honest about how much I really hate George W. Bush and to finally confess that every word I’ve [...]
Many of you will be aware of the “Stardust” space probe that recently returned safely from a long circum-solar mission (a previous probe impacted at high speed when its parachute failed). The mission was to collect both cometary dust from a comet tail, and also interstellar dust from “empty” space; both collectors used aerogel foams [...]
I think I like this: A proposal that would give same-sex couples some of the benefits of marriage has been filed in the Colorado legislature. If adopted it would put the plan to voters in November. The House late Monday referred the bill to the Judiciary Committee. The Colorado Domestic Partnership Benefits and Responsibilities Act [...]
The Worse Angels of Our Nature
Posted in General, Politics, Terrorism on February 22, 2006 | 3 Comments »
George Bush illustrates several of his ugliest and most dangerous traits in his handling of the port-sale fiasco today. First he OKs a stupendously bad plan as a payoff to one of his political cronies who just happened to be a former top executive for the foreign company in question. Then, in a typical display [...]
Voinovich to Support Publicly Financed Campaigns?
Posted in Politics on February 22, 2006 |
This is interesting: Sen. George Voinovich, Ethics Committee chairman and a sometime gadfly to Republican leadership, is warming to Democratic-backed proposals for public financing of federal elections. Voinovich (R-Ohio) told The Hill that he has met with Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) to discuss collaboration on the public-financing pitch Durbin is crafting with Sen. [...]
This is not really a surprise. I know that describing the government giving a port contract to a company run by a state suspected of ties to terrorists as unsurprising is going to seem a little bit odd, but it really doesn’t surprise me that much. And my lack of surprise is not entirely a [...]
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