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U.S. Fed’s optimism on economy high-stakes oil bet – Reuters.com But many economists and former Fed officials saw the U.S. central bank’s decision on Tuesday to stick to a course of gradual rate rises as a high-stakes gamble that energy prices can be brought under control. When I saw the first news on the rate […]

I was driving home from work in my ’95 Saturn, a cheap car that offers the highest mileage of any non-hybrid vehicle out there, when I came upon the third or fourth Kerry bumpersticker I’ve seen so far….on a fancy SUV. Now I certainly have nothing against the rich as I hope to be rich […]

This post on Reductio Ad Absurdum v3 – Revoke the Gasbag’s Privilegesstarted me off rambling across the internet looking up some of my favorite gasbags and other colorful characters. (Don’t blame Kevin for anything I found – his post just set me looking.) I eventually ran across this site – Free James Traficant : James […]

:: Xinhuanet – English :: The anti-war documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” has crossed the 100-million-dollar mark over the weekend, setting a new benchmark for nonficition Hollywood films, the Hollywood Reporter reported Monday. Uh, wait a minute, I seem to remember a nonfiction Hollywood film released on Ash Wednesday that has done about 5 times that.

Slashdot | BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves Buzz Skyline writes “Einstein@Home is a new, BOINC-based distributed computing project that will analyze data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO). The goal is to perform a whole-sky, gravitational wave survey of pulsars. Beta-test versions of the Einstein@Home screen saver should be available by […]

George was not happy that the tree fell on his pen. More storm photos here.