Monthly Archives: February 2009
Anti-Limbaugh Ad Campaign; Rush Laughs All the Way to the Bank While Dems Dream On
Attacking any radio personality is a rather easy and futile enterprise. Look at what happened with Don Imus. Fired one day for saying something offensive. Hired by someone else the next month. Especially when the radio personality is Rush Limbaugh. He’s … Continue reading
MIT’s Solar Race Car: All I Can Say Is “Yowzuh!”
What can you say? 90 m.p.h. and solar. Plus, it sort of looks like Dragonfly’s car from Roman Coppola’s 1960s spy film genre spoof “CQ.”
James Dobson Stepping Down: John Mayer May Be Wimpy, But Also Right
As much as I like John Mayer’s song 2006 protest song “Waiting On the World to Change”, I felt it was wimpy, especially compared with Neil Young’s “Ohio” and Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter in America” (and pretty much anything else he did). … Continue reading
Tibet Boycotts Holiday Festivities; China Struggles to Manufacture Fun
Another anniversary fast approaching is the one year commemoration of the Tibetan uprising against their Chinese oppressors. It seems Tibet has found another new way to irritate their generally irritable captors. Tibetans are refusing to put on a show for the … Continue reading
Solar Panels Costs to Drop 30-40%; Time to Make REAL Home Improvements
Yeah, I’m a renewable energy geek. It’s now been nearly two years since Solarius Precarious (left), our 2 kW PV array, went on line nearly two years ago in March, 2007 and we’ve been saving energy and pollution every since. … Continue reading
Boxee + Hulu= Network Difficulties
TV and cable networks are already struggling to make money and now they’ve something new to worry about. It’s a little computer app/box called Boxee. It pulls together web content and your own media on your computer and plays them on … Continue reading
Obama Stimulates Salt Lake; Becker, Huntsman Work It While GOP’s Butts Still Filled with Heads
Who would’ve guessed that Salt Lake City would be one of the major recipients of the federal rescue cash flowing out of Washington? But that appears to be the case as Mayor Ralph Becker’s returned from Obamaland with sacks of cash … Continue reading
Breaking Irony: CNBC Goof Rick Santelli’s Right Wing Rant: Anything to Get Noticed
Much excitement is circulating among the Radical Religious Right about the on-air unhingeing of CNBC reporter Rick Santelli last week over Obama’s housing rescue plan. Why I’m not sure. Isn’t it the RRR who distrusts the mainstream media so much they created … Continue reading
Conservation in a Tough Economy? Ask Great Depression, World War Survivors
As the global economy sinks deeper, I see more commentaries questioning the financial wisdom of businesses, governments and households continuing the “luxury” of environmental/conservation efforts that escalated after revelations about human-induced climate change and continued during the Bush Regime. The Right … Continue reading
Chris Buttars’ Ironic Crusade: Utah Legislators Hail Hollywood- Hold the Homos
One of the great things about the Radical Religious Right (just connect the tops of KKK and you get RRR) is that they provide an inexhaustible supply of irony and hypocrisy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the current debate over homosexual … Continue reading
