Monthly Archives: January 2009
Blagojevich Impeached: Illinois Just the Poster Child for America’s Cultural Political Corruption
I was born in Illinois and lived off and on there for about 32 of my 55 years. The brand of corruption practiced there is not much different from that I’ve witnessed in the seven other states I’ve lived in, not … Continue reading
New Study Shows Wind Power Provides Economic AND Electric Power in Utah
This new study by Utah State University and the U.S. Department of Energy shows what some of us have been talking about to mostly deaf ears for years. Renewable energy provides not only clean electricity but good paying jobs and … Continue reading
Motorola Tundra “Cell-a-Pult”: What Commercial Video- Not to Mention Cell Phones- Should Be
A friend of mine at Motorola passed on this viral ad demonstrating the durability of their new cell phone “Tundra.” It’s about as effective a promotion as you can get. I’ve personally known about Motorola’s bullet-proof phones since I bought … Continue reading
Bad Economic News Reflects Obsession with Size
Because America’s mass media machine is so large, it only understands things in terms of size. The programs, news stories, ads/commercials and other “content” are not done because of the interest they contain in and of themselves but because of … Continue reading
Grand Canyon Water Flow Deceptively Manipulated by Bush Interior Dept.
Ah, the The Bush Regime: The gift that keeps on giving. New evidence shows the outgoing Interior Department fascisti ignored scientific evidence and may have committed perjury when it manipulated the flow of the Colorado River through Glen Canyon Dam in … Continue reading
Utah Microbreweries Get Long-Deserved Writeup in New York Times
One of the first things I noticed about Utah when I moved here in summer of 2006 was that it actually had locally-produced beer. GREAT beer. You could go to any grocery store and pick up a six, eight or … Continue reading
Obama Energy Plan: The Future is Finally Here
One of the unacknowledged yet major failures of the utterly failed Bush Regime was not developing a REAL national energy policy. The fake and self-serving “policy” cobbled together by Dick Cheney’s committee of friends and business associates in the fossil … Continue reading
Breaking Irony: What’ll We Do Without Bushes to Beat?
“Be careful what you wish for” the old saying goes. The Blogosphere now has a gigantic “whine gap” with the departure of Bush, Cheney, et al. Comedy Central and Colbert are just not as funny. The country seems to be … Continue reading
Message to Obama’s New FCC: Keep Internet Neutral
Business Week magazine quotes CBS Interactive executive Quincy Smith describing video on the Internet as “television.” The arrogance, inaccuracy and inherent violence of this statement capture perfectly the challenge facing the Internet in maintaining its equality and artistic freedom. CBS and … Continue reading
America’s French Revolution: Let Us Eat Coffee Cake
I’ve been inspired to re-read the Wikipedia history of the French Revolution given the very similar circumstances now prevailing in the good, old USA. With television ratings flagging, the country in ruins, and the guilty parties still ransacking the smouldering … Continue reading
