Archive for 2010

SCIENCE WAGES WAR against mosquitoes. Faster, please.

TODAY’S LAZINESS as fear.

FOOD PRICES FACE “an inflationary tide.” “Prices of staples including milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have risen sharply in recent months.”

UPDATE: Various readers say it’ll only get worse as the new round of “quantitative easing” kicks in. Well, when dollars are worth less, a loaf of bread costs more dollars.

Meanwhile, at Forbes, more cheery news: Look At The Real Numbers, The Recession Never Ended. Stagflation is back?

“ONE TOUGH NERD:” Snyder rises from obscurity to lead GOP rout in Michigan. “The election marked not just a power shift but a major facelift at the Capitol in Lansing. The governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and more than three quarters of the Senate and half the House are non-incumbents in the biggest one-day turnover since voters approved term limits in 1992.”

MORE THOUGHTS ON AMERICA AND INDIA from Austin Bay.

ETHICS VIOLATION: Keith Olbermann Suspended Over Contributions To Candidates. “Indefinitely without pay.”

So he broke an NBC rule. But while he didn’t disclose the contributions, were any viewers deceived into thinking that he was a neutral journalist?

THE TWELVE UGLIEST CARS at SEMA 2010.