Ed Calls For Mooning

No, actually he calls for a moon shot for energy, invoking the image of John F. Kennedy's visionary launching of the quest to land on the moon:Most Americans would agree that the US has to move away from dependency on...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

Original Thinking!

I almost yakked up my skull when I heardthis story on Weekend Edition this morning:Environmentalists concerned over global warming are considering a radical idea: Nuclear power as an acceptable way of making electricity. Unlike electricity from burning coal and gas,...
Posted by Mitch on September 30, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

Things That Could Make Mitch Go Green

The Tesla Roadster, built on a Lotus chassis:Slide into the thinly padded driver’s seat of the Tesla and it looks and feels very familiar. That’s not surprising since the car’s chassis and many interior bits are shared with Lotus. But...
Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I Prefer Dunn Brothers

20% of NYC Starbucks stores cited for health department violations including infestations of rodents, roaches and flies:The complaints filed by Starbucks employees with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration focus on three stores - at Union Square East, E....
Posted by Mitch on August 17, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Filthy Canadians

Mark Steyn's latest piece tears into a lot of his usual suspects - terror-supporters, bloated bureaucrats, and so on - but the most interesting part seems to be down toward the bottom:I notice, for example, that signatories to the Kyoto...
Posted by Mitch on November 30, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Your Lion Eyes

For some reason, I just love this story; black-maned Ethiopan lions rescue an abducted girl:A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently...
Posted by Mitch on June 21, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Mulder???

It sounds like Art Bell material: A series of random number generators around the world - little boxes that use fairly trival microcircuits to generate endless streams of random numbers - are analyzed constantly to see if the random results...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Postcards from Hell

India Uncut blogger Amit Varma blogs from the midst of the tsunami's rubble field. Horrifying, to be sure. Fascinating, too, in a grim way, watching the way government fails in extremis....
Posted by Mitch on January 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Frogs, Meet Stork

Jonathan Rauch pithily entitles his latest piece in Reason:Fix the McCain-Feingold Law Oops—Can I Say That? It's a good question....
Posted by Mitch on October 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Someone Tell Soucheray

This story's headline wrote rhetorical checks that no story could cash:Segway owners beat each other with homemade malletsStill, the payoff is there....
Posted by Mitch on July 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Return Of The Poseur

Brian at Boviosity tackles Roger Ebert's review of Return of the King. Ebert had this to say about the movie:That it falls a little shy of greatness is perhaps inevitable. The story is just a little too silly to...
Posted by Mitch on December 26, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Quidditched

I may be one of about twenty adults left in the Twin Cities that haven't read all four Harry Potter books. Oh, don't get me wrong: I'm not like my sister, who bans the stuff from her house because of...
Posted by Mitch on November 19, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)