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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 09:55 PM
Original article: Clean, green... Texas?

Massachusetts Could Be A Contender

We've evidently got plenty of megawatts blowing out there around the Cape and up the coast. We just gotta figure out how to appease the NIMBYs who think that turbines 10 miles off the coast will be a blight to their summerhomes.

However, the next town over from mine, a relatively staid, conservative little burg, just erected a 50kWH turbine to power a school near the Mystic River. Sometimes, things just happen if you give them time.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 07:05 PM

Good God Someone Needs to Put This Version Of Motion Capture Out of Its Misery

Seriously, the previews I've seen were so jaw-droppingly awful that I cannot believe anyone signed off on the final renderings from the server farm. Bugs Bunny cartoons have more life and verve than this crapola. He-Man cartoons, for God's sake.

When you have a movie like District 9 doing more believable motion capture aliens for a fraction of the cost, you'd better take a good long hard look at the technology you're flogging. If I want to see mid-90's polygoned animation I'll just go find a GameCube on eBay.

Monday, October 26, 2009 10:50 AM
Original article: Worst. Bank. Ever.

With Innovation Like That...

who needs stagnation?

Monday, October 26, 2009 07:28 AM

Jennifer's Body?

Seriously? You want to claim that as an example of a strong female lead?

Friday, October 23, 2009 01:59 PM

Cart Before The Horse

If these girls didn't have creepy fathers who whored them out to the spotlight as soon as they could walk, they wouldn't be troubled celebrities now.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 04:19 PM

The Codex Book's Killer App--

It still doesn't need to be plugged in or recharged.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 08:18 AM

But St. Ronnie Can Do Nothing Wrong!

I'm surprised we haven't heard the chorus line start up yet with the Reagan hagiography. It may be ancient history, but that doesn't stop people from misremembering how awesome Reagan was.

Saturday, August 1, 2009 06:24 PM

Lovely Turn of Phrase

You let your money know that you're too busy and important to care all that much about it, and suddenly more and more money is following you around, trying desperately to get into your pants.

Monday, July 20, 2009 07:21 PM

Always Amusing that They Identify With Megalomaniacs

This isn't the first time that crazy religious fanatics mention Mao, Stalin and bin Laden as people to emulate. But it's always funny to hear them say it. I wonder why they choose a heathen Muslim and godless atheists when their Good Book should be brimming with proper role models.

Here's a good quote from a while back:

Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."

Monday, July 20, 2009 08:45 AM
Original article: Goodnight, moon travel

LOL @ Jugsouthgate

The problem with fueling up your car in the 70s had nothing to do with the space program and everything to do with OPEC. Japan made better consumer electronics and fuel-efficient cars because their industries were young and hungry and ours were mature and complacent. Stupid zero-sum games never win anything. Short-sightedness rules. If Bush had spend $500 billion on going to Mars and $500 billion on alternative energy, we'd have landed on Syrtis Major, be unrolling cheap photovoltaic solar fabric by now, and had the same military presence worldwide that we did in 1999. Instead, we enriched Halliburton stockholders, paid for Blackwater's private army, and spread tons of depleted uranium around Mesopotamia. When you throw out figures like $100 billion being a waste on the space program, remember, that's chump change these days. Seven times that went toward bailing out pathologically stupid investment bankers.

Monday, July 20, 2009 07:03 AM
Original article: Goodnight, moon travel

Why Can't We Do Both Things At Once?

I never like these zero-sum games people play with the space program. For the cost of the Iraq War we could have had 25 Apollo-style moon landings and $500 billion to play with for climate and renewable energy research. Yet, for some reason, the $12 billion that NASA currently gets is treated as the waste of resources standing in the way of solving our climate problems. Farking myopic, is what this is.

Sunday, July 19, 2009 08:13 AM
Original article: When summer TV goes bad

The T.O. Clip I'd Like to See

Is when he finally told the Krupanator to go fark herself.

Saturday, July 18, 2009 06:16 AM

Right On, Glenn

I keep hoping against hope that some day, at some time, your gadfly role will no longer be needed, because journalists will remember what their role is supposed to be. Truth to power. Who, what, where, when, why, how. How simple is that?

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 05:59 AM

Sign Me Up

I'm rather pleased to be a married guy. My wife is smart, beautiful and interesting to talk to. Add sex to the whole thing and who could want more?

Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:31 PM

I Thought Elle Was About Fashion

Miley Cyrus doesn't really have the PR, the fanbase, nor the features of a fashion model. In fact, that cover looks like some weird amalgam of Elle and Teen People. What were the editors thinking?

Sunday, July 5, 2009 09:33 AM

A Tweak On The Program Schedule Name

It should be "SyFyLyst".

And I can't wait for "Mansquito IV: The Revenge".

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 08:27 PM

Trial By Fire

Sometimes you have to peer into the abyss before you realize you need ropes and pitons. At some point in time California will cobble something together, or fall apart along geographical lines, NoCal, SoCal and the Inland Empire. We may have two new stars on the flag next decade.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 05:46 PM

Where It All Broke Down

I read it when I was 18, and was skeptical but willing to suspend judgement up until the point when Taggart and Rearden discover Galt's "static electricity" engine in an abandoned Michigan workshop. Then I realized it was nothing but utopian fantasy, and wondered who could possibly take it seriously.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 05:46 AM
Original article: Night of the living neocons

Can't Keep a Good Troll Down

Fight the good fight, GLR!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 06:52 PM
Original article: Night of the living neocons

Paging Mr. Godwin, We Have A Troll On The Line for Mr. Godwin

Good job in invoking the Nazis, GLR. I'm also impressed that you managed to get 13 letters in Salon today, starting at 9 am. Funny how such a prolific poster doesn't have any letters published before today, though. They must be paying more than minimum wage at the RNC these days.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 06:46 PM
Original article: Night of the living neocons

Where's Mr. Always Wrong?

Bill Kristol has yet to weight in, for which I'm surprised. He's usually on the front lines in these matters, getting everything amazingly incorrect.

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