Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like every year the Christmas “season” starts earlier. Right now I am sitting in Starbucks and they are playing Christmas music .. ON OCTOBER 19th! It used to be (20 years ago?) that you didn’t really see or hear much about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Christmas in October
October 19, 2008The Myth of Clean Coal
October 13, 2008I think Wikipedia nails the definition perfectly, describing “clean coal” as “an oxymoronic umbrella term”, used to convince people that there is a way to clean up the dirtiest fossil fuels in use today. Coal emits many dangerous substances when burned, including: sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, heavy metals (uranium, thorium, and mercury), and [...]
Focus on the Future
October 11, 2008I’ll admit that this is one of the first presidential races that I’ve really paid attention to, and now I realize why voter apathy has been so high in the last 20 years. It’s about as entertaining as a badly written soap opera .. lots of drama and very little real content. I [...]
The New Yorker – Obama 2008!
October 2, 2008All I can say is .. wow. The editors of The New Yorker have composed a very well-thought comparison between Obama and McCain. It is fairly long but worth the read. This should give the die-hard McCain supporters something to think about and reassure those who have already sided with logic and [...]
