Posts under ‘Politics & Religion’

The Postal Service is in big trouble. The quantity of mail they push through is dropping like a rock, and they’re bleeding cash. They now owe the government over $10 billion dollars and it’s only going to get worse.
It’s not hard to figure out why: they’re facing the double whammy of the Internet (email replacing [...]

Wind Farm
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri
I drive past this wind farm when I visit my folks in Indiana, and every time I see it I get just a little jealous.
There are three separate wind farms in the works around here, but every one of them is under fire from locals who don’t want anything to do [...]

In today’s entry, I learned that a Saudi family is suing a genie that has been harassing them.
I honestly don’t know where to begin. It’s in a Sharia court, so that tells us why the case even made it that far.
My next question is how do they prove the genie is there, much less get [...]

There’s a lot of debate over the cause or source of homosexuality, mostly involving nature vs. nurture, biology vs. desire, and so on. We can all agree, however, that it’s not caused by demonic possession.
Or so I thought.
It stuns me that these things still happen. Most people of faith can reconcile science and psychology with [...]

An alien showed up in Pakistan, and what do they do? Kill it.

“Look, an alien! Let’s kill it, cook it up, and show it off on a dinner plate so his friends get really pissed!”
Thanks, Pakistan! Guess we best start preparing for the invasion.
At least they’re tiny and likely have tiny ships. Maybe we can [...]

I watched Planet Forward this evening, and it only made me more pissed at the NIMBYs stalling a local wind farm at every turn.
Planet Forward featured some great conversations on the future of energy in the United States, from generation to electric cars. They discussed the pros and cons of nuclear power, the pitfalls of [...]

This video of Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, is about 18 minutes long but is well worth watching:

The video explains how Better Place came to be, the plan for the cars, and the economics behind the Better Place plan versus oil over the next ten years.
Whether you think his plan will work [...]

Taxes don’t bother me.
Really, they don’t. Taxes pay for our roads, our schools, and several other services. I often disagree with the way some of the funds are spent, but that’s to be expected.
The part I can’t abide is the greedy manner in which the system works. The politicians only see projects they need more [...]

I don’t know what’s funnier about this story: the fact the vigilantes captured a goat or the police are actually keeping the goat in custody.
Said goat is allegedly a car thief. No, the goat didn’t try to steal the car; the vigilantes claim the actual thief turned himself into a goat to evade capture.
I tell [...]

Have trouble understanding just why the housing market and the banks are in such deep shit? Check out The Crisis of Credit Visualized, which breaks it down into a simple explanation graphics.
It makes it easy to see just how stupid the banks and big investment firms really are.