This is it for me, at least for this chapter. I am off to join some people who don’t much appreciate voices singing out of key, and while they might be able to get over my public disdain for coaches who punt in opposing territory, it would be rather awkward to continue to point out [...]
Archive for the ‘Energy Policy’ Category
The End of the Internet
Posted in Corruption, Education, Energy Policy, Health Care, Housing Crisis, Housing Policy, Industrial Policy, Inspirational, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Middle East, Miscellaneous, NAFTA, Obama, War on Terror on December 15, 2009 | 29 Comments »
The Fierce Urgency of Something
Posted in Abortion, Ben Bernanke, Corruption, Dick Cheney, Education, Energy Policy, George W. Bush, Health Care, Immigration, Marriage Equality, Meltdown on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having had to listen to this: It’s been just 68 days since that afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, when Senator McCain introduced me as [...]
The Roof Is on Fire
Posted in Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreigners on October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Apparently I’m a bit late to the latest academic kerfluffle: Superfreakanomics‘ curious decision to wade into the global warming debate on the Neanderthal side. Well, not exactly Neanderthal. More incoherent.
Home Court Advantage
Posted in China, Corruption, Dick Cheney, Energy Policy, Foreigners, France, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Middle East, Military, Obama, Russia on October 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Once upon a time, there was a hedge fund named Hermitage Capital. Its head was Bill Browder, and it had the clever idea, back during the Yeltsin Administration, of investing Western capital in Russia. It worked spectacularly well, until it didn’t: Browder is a smart guy. He made a lot of money and managed to [...]
Role of Government
Posted in Corruption, Energy Policy, Health Care, Middle East on October 7, 2009 | 11 Comments »
David Brooks’ silly season seems to have found an Indian Summer, as he goes on about his imaginary friends Mr. Bentham and Mr. Hume: If you put Mr. Bentham in charge of the government, he’d proceed with confidence. If you told him to solve a complicated issue like the global-warming problem, he’d gather the smartest [...]
Fool’s Gold
Posted in China, Energy Policy, Health Care, Industrial Policy, Labor Policy, Obama on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Labor Day is as good an excuse as any to sit outside and have a few beers, even if we in America have to be different and observe it on the first Monday in September instead of the first day of May. If you are in Logan County, West Virginia that day, Don Blankenship wants [...]
Food
Posted in Energy Policy, Food, Health Care on July 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This weekend the Remote Area Medical Group – a variant of Medecins Sans Frontieres – had its annual field event at the Wise County Fair Ground. In Virginia, not Zimbabwe. It is disgraceful that in the United States, which our politicians insist on telling us is the best at everything, people need to drive hundreds [...]
Why Do This to Yourself?
Posted in Energy Policy, Hillary Clinton, South America on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not learning any lessons from Marsha Blackburn, Mike Spence (R-IN) decides to mix it up with Hillz. In his defense, perhaps he assumed that by taking four minutes to ask his question, everyone would have fallen asleep and he could go home with a clip of him delivering a Sternly Worded Statement to the Secretary [...]
Stay Out of the Lane
Posted in Energy Policy on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Marsha Blackburn (R-crazy town) woke up in the morning and decided to pick a fight with Al Gore on green energy. Her wedge issue: Al Gore has invested in green energy. Apparently no one on her staff told her to have a cocktail, put on the fuzzy slippers, and stay home, because she went ahead [...]
Should Know Better
Posted in Architecture, Energy Policy on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Surprising exactly no one, New York’s mass transit system is once again out of money. The authority says its board must vote by March 25 on a budget. The Legislature is contemplating a rescue plan proposed by a state commission led by Richard Ravitch, a former authority chairman. A central plank of that plan includes [...]
