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Warren Buffett Invests In World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Project
by Pete Danko Warren Buffett can’t get enough of those renewables, and for a day at least the markets are following his lead.The famed billionaire investor’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings said on...
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The Guardian: "Why Paul Krugman Should Be Obama's Pick For US Treasury Secretary
Paul Krugman: 'The rich are different from you and me: they have more influence.' Photograph: David Levene for the GuardianWhy Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretaryNot...
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Diane Rehm Interviews Dr. Robert Lustig On America's Deadly, Treasury-Busting...
Alec Baldwin Interviews Dr. Robert Lustighttp://en.paperblog.com/sugar-free-alec-baldwin-interviews-dr-robert-lustig-258587/***Diane Rehm's Audio...
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G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Emphasize Misogyny or Racism
NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, there is a deep divide among Republican leaders over whether to emphasize misogyny or racism as the campaign’s...
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It's official! Kilogram has put on weight
London, January 07, 2013The official kilogram - a cylinder-shaped hunk of metal - that defines the fundamental unit of mass, has itself gained weight, scientists say.Scientists at Newscastle University...
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Catholic Education, in Need of Salvation
Catholic Education, in Need of SalvationBy PATRICK J. McCLOSKEY and JOSEPH CLAUDE HARRISPublished: January 6, 2013CATHOLIC parochial education is in crisis. More than a third of parochial schools in...
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Interactive World Map: National Debt as Percent of GDP by Country
In 2012 U.S. debt to GDP was 102.4%.***Alan: Why is it that all the supposedly socialized countries of Europe -- France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, England -- have much lower debt-to-GDP ratios than the...
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"Loving" Mother Kills Son For Failing To Memorize The Quran
Sara Ege was convicted of murdering 7-year-old Yaseen and burning his body to destroy the evidence.A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17...
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Richard Cohen on Chuck Hagel: "The problem is not anti-Semitism but character...
Richard CohenOpinion WriterThe tarring of Chuck HagelBefore they were girls, they were women. Before that, they were girls. I am not talking here of the chronology of females but of acceptable usage....
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
Tuesday, January 8, 2013Experts say mentally ill patients in ERs reaching ‘crisis’ levelsBy KEVIN LANDRIGANStaff WriterCONCORD – Treatment of the mentally ill is reaching crisis proportions due to a...
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Rush Limbaugh: Defender Of Traditional Marriage
Rush Detained At Airport With Prescription Viagra In Someone Else's Namehttp://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-1753947.html***It's also a cigar. (But not often.)***Why are American conservatives so...
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Bill Mahar: "Crazy Stupid Politics" (Hour-long stand-up routine, 2012)
"Crazy Stupid Politics"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLewClkbqY***Bonus!Bill Maher's "Republican Monologue"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MavIce2oM
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CDC: Binge drinking is serious problem for girls, women
Cathy Payne, USA TODAYJanuary 8, 2013The problem needs more scrutiny, the CDC says, and it put women's health at increased risk.(Photo: Eric Risberg, AP)STORY HIGHLIGHTS1 in 8 women report binge...
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"Rich Man, Poor Man: The radical visions of St. Francis"
RICH MAN, POOR MANThe radical visions of St. Francis.BY JOAN ACOCELLAJANUARY 14, 2013For the Church, Francis was too revered not to claim, too radical not to neutralize.“Why you?” a man asked Francesco...
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2012 was hottest year in U.S. history
Doyle Rice, USA TODAYJanuary 8, 20132012 was also the nation's driest year since 1988.(Photo: Eileen Blass, USA TODAY)STORY HIGHLIGHTS2012's average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degreesRecord is 3.2...
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First Images Of Giant Squid In Native Habitat
Still image taken from video footage of a giant squid near Ogasawara Islands in July 2012.By Nolan FeeneyJan. 08, 2013A team of researchers led by zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera encountered the squid in...
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Ketamine: Leading the Way Toward Fast-Acting Antidepressants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine***By Maia SzalavitzJan. 08, 20131 CommentRELATEDA Mystery Partly Solved: How the ‘Club Drug’ Ketamine Lifts Depression So QuicklyThe Secret to Fast-Acting...
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Thorium Energy and The Inevitability Of Solar Power
Dear Ed,Thanks for keeping me in this loop.Under the suasive influence of "big media," Americans are force-fed froth.We delight in the "drama of conflict" and are correlatively bored by the tedium of...
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