A Knight in Dragonland

Ha!  Yeah, right.
I love this analogy from 2 Dinar (with a Hat Tip to Andrew Sullivan):
I don’t know about you, but I’m embarrassed when the president of the US, allegedly the most “can-do” nation in the world, repeatedly goes to the Saudis and begs for increases in oil production to sustain our ridiculous habit. Just [...]

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I have experienced more power glitches – both brief interruptions and prolonged outages – in the last two years in Pekin than I did for my entire 15 years in St. Louis.  We’ve had two prolonged outages and 3 or 4 flickers just in the past couple weeks.
What gives???  Has Pekin always had such frequent [...]

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OK, this newsclip on Yahoo caught my eye.  It’s probably right up there with cold fusion, but it sure would be nice if it were true.  The company is confident enough to issue an open challenge to the scientific community in The Economist.  We’ll see what plays out.

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