When Life Imitates The Simpsons
As Oil Prices Soar, Restaurant Grease Thefts Rise The bandit pulled his truck to the back of a Burger King in Northern California one afternoon last month armed with a hose and a tank....
Monthly Archive: May 2008
Liboration Theology
The cost of insuring against default on the bonds of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and other big banks and brokerages has surged over the last two weeks, threatening to reach the stress levels seen...
Quality Illusions
Why do the perceptions of “quality” in notebook PCs vary so much? People love brands. Many Apple fans insist that because Apple is such a stickler for control, its notebooks are therefore much higher...
Can War Class War
The vast disparity in can-wealth distribution is difficult to understand for many Americans. Most people, according to the report, cannot relate to the lifestyles of the super-poor, who never have to go to work,...
All Your Health Are Belong To Us
When you provide your information through Google Health, you give Google a license to use and distribute it in connection with Google Health and other Google services. However, Google may only use health information...
Power of Prayer
A man, woman and two teenage children apparently shared a house in Necedah Township, Wisconsin with a corpse for two months before authorities found the body. At least one of the adults in the...
No Oil For War!
For all the talk of America’s growing reliance on computers, advanced sensors, and stealth technology to prevail in warfare, it has been oil above all that gave the US military its capacity to “project...
Captain Birdseye… Pirate!
Many of those fish you can see in such glorious abundance in Spanish markets … come not from European seas but from the coasts of the continents of the poor: Africa, South America and...
Architecture Astronomy
Microsoft is vacuuming up way too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their shady recruiters making unethical exploding offers to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you’re on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with...
Serendipitous Germans
Diamorphine, also known as heroin, was first synthesized for commercial use in 1897. The men who discovered it, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun, had also, a couple of weeks earlier, invented aspirin; for some...