This isn’t only a problem in the US. While Los Angeles may not go into civil war and try and kill the people of San Diego or Las Vegas over the water, other parts of the world are not so inclined to be peaceful with the their water using neighbors. I have said [...]

Unemployment rate hits 4-year high as job losses continue - Aug. 1, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers cut jobs in July for the seventh straight month, while the unemployment rate hit a four-year high, according to a government report released Friday.
This is not surprising at all. Locally I have seen way too many retail [...]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm said
Friday that he is stepping down as co-chairman of Sen. John McCain’s
presidential campaign amid criticism for saying last week that “we have
sort of become a nation of whiners.”

I actually can’t say I disagree with Phil on this. In fact I might take it a step further [...]

A new study comparing the Atkins diet, a Mediterranean diet and a low-fat diet published on July 17 inThe New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is likely to inspire headlines saying that the Atkins diet is better for your waistline and your health than a low-fat diet.
For years now the “low fat gurus” have been [...]

Weeding Out The Highs Of Medical Marijuana
ScienceDaily (July 15, 2008) — Research exploring new ways of exploiting the full medicinal uses of cannabis while avoiding unwanted side-effects will be presented to pharmacologists on July 15 by scientists attending the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies Congress, EPHAR 2008.

For a second time today I am posting a [...]

With everything those crazy Floridans have been pulling I am not sure one message here is a bad thing. Melting Glaciers = What’s The Big Deal - Florida actually sounds pretty good, Of course Floridans being who they are always wanting government intervention to save them from the evils of the world will [...]

I am scared to say this but for the first time in my life I am agreeing with the sentiments of W’s spoken word. He has all but blamed the rising middle class of India for the current rise in food prices and availability. This extends to China and other Southeast Asian nations who get [...]

I was linked to this morning through a completely unrelated topic this morning to a letter to the editor and just had to do a post of my own. To make a long story short the letter’s author blames people having babies who can’t support them for most of our economic woes. In part I [...]

Alternately we could call this another delusion of grandeur from the president. The checks started showing up today through direct deposit. Of course being a guy who owes the IRS money, I am not getting one. I might be a little bitter, but only because I could use the extra cash to [...]

It is said that we are in the middle of a world food crisis. Bullshit, we are in the middle of a population crisis. For centuries we have bred to the point of instability and we are now finally feeling the crunch of scarce resources. The caring part of my humanity feels for people who [...]