Protest coal all you want. Come up with a solution that produces as much power in such a compact space. Don't want nuclear power, either? Then STFU.

What's the difference between HMO/insurance company accountants making the decisions and a bureaucrat?

Google "tragedy of the commons"

Such an article assumes facts not in evidence, to wit, that some of them (Octo-Mom, Jon & Kate) had any soul to begin with. I would argue that they didn't in the first place. Someone with a true soul and valid self-identity wouldn't need to sink to such depravity as reality TV, AW'ing interviews, etc.

The Los Angeles Times, quite often referred to as the Pravda of the west coast is in similar decline. But it's due to in large part to their painfully obvious bias towards illegal immigrants, Democrats and similar leftist causes. For example, the tone-deaf LA Times completely misread the anger during the CA Gov. Grey Davis recall election/campaign. In fact, they went so far as to declare that Davis would survive the recall, despite polling running nearly 2:1 against Davis. When Davis was recalled, the LA Times was shocked that Davis went down. More recently, the LA Times sent a journalist to cover 100 people protesting against a liquor store in South-Central LA but totally missed a 15,000 person rally against the new taxes in the California budget.

It's this inability of the LA Times (and other papers) to separate the bias of the editorial page from the rest of the paper that's causing much of the decline.

Ok, so the GOP is getting its collective rear kicked in most states.

Death of the GOP, however does NOT mean the death of conservativism, even in the bastion of liberalism, California. Remember, California approved Prop 8, shot down affirmative action, passed a prop that restricted access for illegal aliens to government services, etc.

It's possible that the death of the GOP represents the fact that the GOP doesn't really reflect conservatives.

For the record, I'm not a conservative or liberal.

What I meant to say is that parking garages and public transit don't line the pockets of major donors (to both parties) like ADM, etc.

I gotta quit posting stuff when I'm drunk.

Remember that government subsidies to ADM (and related firms, along with the ethanol companies that are now folding left and right) don't line the pockets of big donors and don't garner votes in the flyover states. Remember that McCain came out against ethanol and was destroyed in Iowa.

This isn't a bombshell to anyone who has an inkling of economics. Of COURSE prices of food are going to go up when there is a completely distorted market for grains. The market was horribly distorted by governments that were urged on by companies like ADM that stood to make tons of money and the environmentalists, who, acting the useful idiot role, demanded more ethanol.

Now that ethanol has been proven to be a complete boondoggle and waste of everyone's money, can we move on and start looking for REAL solutions?