Archive for the 'Current Events' Category

Wind power

“A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030. The report doesn’t mention that this would require adopting policies the Bush administration opposes. But that’s what elections are for.”

Myanmar

Myanmar officials would rather chase around a US reporter to make him shut up about the deplorable aftereffects of Nargis than actually do something about the fucking situation. This is the cherry on top of all the other bullshit that’s been going on down there.

Oh yeah, and there’s another storm on the way.

YouTube

Eight teenagers charged in Internet beating have their day on the Web. I really don’t know what to say about this, even though as soon as I read the heading I knew there was some… relevance to my own life. I saw the video on the news, and it’s as disturbing as you’d expect it to be.