Mar
28
2009

URLs du Jour

2009-03-28

  • Of course, just when the Democrats are poised to drive the economy off a fiscal cliff, you can always count on Republicans to totally botch their response, with easily-lampooned vagueness.

  • Captain Ed at Hot Air has a New Hampshire story involving two good guys I actually know, Pat Hynes and Doug Lambert of Granite Grok. They're being pilloried for "negative" (translation: "accurate") stories about the Democrat in the race for a state senate seat.

  • They didn't call it the Enlightenment for nothing, y'know. Instead of turning your lights out tonight, celebrate Human Achievement Hour.

  • If you do plan to turn off your lights, beware of doing anything else that might tarnish your environmental halo:
    "When asked to extinguish electricity, people turn to candlelight," [Bjorn] Lomborg wrote in an op-ed in The Australian. "Candles seem natural, but are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light globes, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights. If you use one candle for each extinguished globe, you're essentially not cutting CO2 at all, and with two candles you'll emit more CO2. Moreover, candles produce indoor air pollution 10 to 100 times the level of pollution caused by all cars, industry and electricity production."
    Do it right: just sit there in the dark. Whimpering optional.