Al Pacino & the US Auto Industry
This week the clueless auto execs are before committees for the Senate and House begging for billions. As you all know, their first attempt failed miserably, flitting to Washington in a company jet...
View ArticleThe Bail-out leads me to question...
Like everyone else, I experienced shock and awe when it took only days for the US Government cut a 750 billion dollar bail-out check to the banks. Over the last weeks I have been wondering how come the...
View ArticleNothing to Fear except freedom from Fear
Even before we climbed down from the trees and took our first furtive steps on some primordial savanna, we were imbued with a healthy dose of fear - and for good reason too. Back then we were fairly...
View ArticleSpace Elevator Race - Revisited
...And so, for example, if America were to succeed in building a –in its essence a 22,000-mile cable, operating like a pulley, dangling down from a stationary satellite, a concept first put forth in...
View ArticleObama Land - through the mirror - and back!
Were you to look around for my recent diary entries, you will find none. Why? I blame President Obama. They say you can blame anything and everything on a president, and in the Bush era that sure...
View ArticleWavering battle line
In the battle for some kind of health reform, Obama has perhaps one, maybe two weeks to mount the bully pulpit and say it like it is. If he does not, it's all over for him and the Democratic Party. It...
View ArticleMy tasty RatBurger(tm) VS your boring Public Option
Perhaps I'll finally see my dream of a "RatBurger(tm)" come true. Throw enough advertising dollars at it and the American public will become 'acclimatized' to the idea. And why not? It worked for the...
View ArticleSpace Elevator - The Strategic Argument
"General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the...
View ArticleTea Party & Ultra Right wing republicans? Not all bad...
While many of my fellow libs are hand-wringing after the successful power-grab by the Tea Party activists and the GOP, I'm calmly settling down to watch the entertainment that will inevitably lead to...
View ArticleThe Retardation of Manned Space Travel and its Consequences
In the light of mankind’s seemingly natural escalation of exploration and technological progress, the last forty years marks the non-appearance of a giant white elephant which few seem to acknowledge...
View ArticleWikiWar: Why Governments and Corporations will lose
Since WikiLeaks proprietor Julian Assange, who has been disseminating sensitive US State Department documents to the International press, was arrested in Britain on the thinnest pretext, a Wikibattle,...
View ArticleUS and the "Gee Willikers effect"
As an English child of the '50's, I was in awe of American culture. England was still trying to pick up the pieces of a shattered infrastructure and struggling with an post-war economy that seemed to...
View ArticleReading the Tea Bag leaves
It is not often a soothsayer of political predictions has the satisfaction of watching his musings unfurl just the way he envisaged - especially when it is the herald of good tidings. Consequently, I...
View ArticleWe, the Online People.gov
"...The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes..." ~ Peter Weiss's "Marat Sade"The Wall Street Protests should be...
View ArticleComing collapse of the Oligarchy. So?
"Goodbye Mr. Chips" by AuthorWe who live in 'Western Civilization' have witnessed the opening volleys of what will become a struggle between citizenry and oligarchic government(s). A great many of us...
View ArticleThe specter of free energy and its implications for the World
"Money for Nothing and your Chicks for free..." Dire StaitsChances are really good that you've never heard of Andrea Rossi or...
View ArticleThe Detroit Hunger Games
Overworked fire department, failing hydrants, bad roads, Detroit burns.As you may or may not know, Detroit is about to be forced into receivership, which is the fate of towns and cities that go...
View ArticleHey, hey, NASA & NSA...
Of course, the're all passing away now, but throughout my adult life there was always a free drink for any WWII Yank who I might have chanced to come across at a pub. These guys and the country they...
View ArticleSidelining Julian Castro
Carefully managing Julian Castro It is uniquely a Democratic Party phenomenon; when a dark horse wins the presidency and the terms have expired, that comes in its wake? Here come the over-the-hill...
View ArticleMedia Social Boffin Fail...
Jeremy Corbyn becomes Labour Leader in an election landslide This is big. It is an impact what will resound in the United States. What's so interesting about this upset victory is that...
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