Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion

Fresh tangerines are quite pleasant, but I also enjoy peeling & sectioning, & leaving it for a few hours, letting the skin become crinkly.

Surprised Kitty

Is it Caturday where you are?

The Senate health bill has the beginnings of VAT taxation. There must be a revolt against this. America with both Income & VAT is no America

I begin to feel smug when I see Brits and Spaniards afflicted with the same type of gossip and springer-esque bilge as US -then, I get sad.

It seems there should be some open source standard for gps map updates It's becoming like printer ink Cheaper to throw the old hardware away

CFL's really do make me feel sickly and irritable. I have seen some LED light that I like. I hope it becomes affordable someday. OLED?

is thankful that all it took was new plugs & wires to get his (wife's) car running again. VR6 = expensive, even when swapping them yourself.

I am pro-immigration-reform and pro-health-insurance-reform, but I am anti-orwellian-word-twisting of the word "reform" & all doublespeak.

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural rights Patriot Act - Part 3 of 3

Without hyperbole, I think this may be the most important YouTube video I've ever seen.

UPS vs. FEDEX: Ultimate Whiteboard Remix

This may be a first: a TV show might just actually get me to read a book. Legend of the Seeker --> Sword of Truth. Spain, Spain, Spain.

Sometimes I think I should have been a geologist, as this is the most fascinating thing I've seen in a week: http://ping.fm/ZqIlY

How quickly politicians lie, and drop centrally important campaign promises, when elected How lying liars in the press killed the newspaper

When writing in stone, favoring your right hand on the mallet, it does seem more natural to write right-to-left; clay and stylus not so much

to clarify "priceless" = I can't even bribe my 'Community President' to consider a solar panel on my section of canopy & no loans for mopeds

2 street-legal electric mopeds: €24k; An 8kWh/d solar station on the roof of my parking stall: €4k; Permission & a loan to do it? Priceless.

wonders if George Bernard Shaw would have considered reality tv as a form of martyrdom? http://ping.fm/whvdV

Just as I always expected, Calatrava IS an alien:
http://ping.fm/odzDs

http://ping.fm/ZUZ3O

Who needs Net Neutrality? We NEED competition. Bust them up (again) make them compete for the USER, at the consumer level. If not: NN is ok.

Dont Copy Europes Mistakes: Less Government Is the Right Way to Fix Healthcare