Monthly Archives: September 2008

Gas price primer

From Rich Hailey, someone who actually took the time to understand why gas prices rise and fall. Via Instapundit. Profit margins on the gasoline business are very slim. The profit margin on gasoline sales was only about 6 percent in … Continue reading

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Iodine goes mainstream

Featured on the front cover of First magazine as the “food switch” that “revs metabolism by 250 percent.” Like I’ve written before, for some reason I seem to stumble upon alt health trends ahead of the curve. Iodine is a … Continue reading

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Me and Camille

Paglia. We both lived, as children, in the same town. Not at the same time, but very nearly. My dad taught in the same school where her dad taught. She mentions it in this new Salon article on Sarah Palin. … Continue reading

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Yum. Sludge.

Isn’t it nice to know that everything anyone pours down the drain — ya know, like Drane-O, and expired meds, and oh! don’t forget! Industrial waste! — can be captured, concentrated, BRANDED and sold as “fertilizer” to be spread on … Continue reading

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They say “NO” to testing meat for mad cow

Who would DO such a thing? Why, our very own United States Department of Agriculture, that’s who! The Agriculture Department is within bounds to bar meatpackers from testing slaughter cattle for mad cow disease, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel … Continue reading

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