So the House has now passed the exceptionally poorly named “No More Solyndras Act“. I say poorly named because it doesn’t actually prevent more Solyndras. As Taxpayers for Common Sense has noted, they should have called the bill the Even More Solyndras Act.
“This measure would still put taxpayers on the hook to loan out
So I drink a lot of tea and coffee – A LOT of tea and coffee. So much so that buying packages of tea bags is kind of pointless. Instead I buy great big bags of loose tea, and typically buy a bunch of them at once. About two weeks ago I bought five 8
Earlier today I posted about the regulatory overreach by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and its war on the rare earth magnets known as Buckyballs and Nanodots.
This afternoon I penned a letter to the CPSC to register my complaint. If you are interested in sending your own letter, I encourage you to do so. You
If you have talked to or followed me in the last 24 hours, you have no doubt heard about BuckyBalls – those small, BB-sized, rare earth magnets you see for sale in novelty shops. April gave me some for Christmas and I am constantly fiddling with them.
Well the US Government, in its infinite wisdom, has
A friend emailed me a moment ago with this note he received from his neighborhood association:
July 11, 2012
Our Mailman, Wayne, came by today with a plea to save the US Post Office
from HR 2309.
He spoke of:
No Saturday service. By eliminating Saturday delivery, the Post Office
would have to lay off 60,000+ workers (Wayne’s alternate for Saturday
Gerald Ford once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” That statements has been attributed to many conservatives over the years, but it was actually one of our less recognized President’s who made the observation. The trouble is,
So it’s now been a week, and the bacon is done curing. I rinsed off all the seasonings (at least, all the seasonings that weren’t buried in the fat, and popped the belly in the oven for 90 minutes at 200 degrees. This is the result (though it has been cut in half to make
No, seriously. I’m makin’ bacon.
I’ve had an odd addiction lately to Diners, Drive Ins and Dives on the Food Network. Recently they featured a place that makes its own bacon, and it looked a) awesome and b) not too hard.
Those that know me also understand that I live under the constant assumption that the zombie
David Roberts, who writes for leftist enviro rag Grist, has a recent post looking at the message challenges facing the Democrats.
In order to inoculate themselves against attacks on Solar Trust of America, Bright Source, Solyndra, LSP Energy, Energy Conversion Devices, Abound Solar, A123 Solar, UniSolar, Azure
“Morons, your bus is leaving!”
That line from Groundhog Day pops into my head every so often when I hear something so truly stupid it takes only a second to fully realize how stupid it is.
On Twitter, @AdamThierer points to such a stupid idea posited in a post by the Electronic