The Case Against Ethanol & Other Plant-Based Biofuels

" One tank of ethanol for the average SUV requires enough grain to feed a person for a year! Every time you fill up your SUV with ethanol, you’re using enough grain to feed a person for one full year."

4 Ways that People Rationalize Racism

This is the most popular by far as it requires little or no self-examination so the conscience overlooks it. If they weren’t the way they are, then I wouldn’t feel this way about them. I wouldn’t have to move out of the neighborhood, or have a problem one of them...

The Real Survivor Fiji – Physical Disease Follows Political Disease

"Bacteria, contamination, and a general breakdown of the attention to detail just may be the reason for outbreaks of illness and death on Fiji ... or maybe it is just a coincidence. There is a reason that most all successful governments throughout the world are NOT military....

Eco-friendly Building Materials

I used to work in real estate, and I'm here to tell you that the sheer amount of drywall used in apartment renovation alone is staggering. The real mission is convincing penny-pinching (to put it nicely) management companies to pay a bit extra for a more responsible...

MPAA Rips off Freeware Author, Did Not Send Themselves a Takedown Notice

This sort of behavior really undercuts the Motion Picture Association of America's holier-than-thou stance on copyright infringement, when the not only can't follow their own byzantine rules, but refuse to take any responsibility for their actions."The author of ForestBlog, a...

Some States Welcome National ID

This article pertains to a US law that has already been passed, a law most Americans know nothing about. The phrase "scope creep" that appears in this article is the perfect way to sum up the danger of national ID cards. Are your papers in order?(The RSA Conference is a...

GOP Wants Your ISP to Spy on You

Remember, once a state gives itself "emergency powers", it never gives them up. History bears this out. With that in mind, do you really want strangers looking over your shoulder while you work and play online, all in the name of nebulous "security"?"All Internet service...

Internet Law - E-commerce Sellers to Store Business Records Electronically.

"The United States requires E-commerce sellers to store their business records electronically. To have confidence in the processes and methodology used to store records electronically, the Internal Revenue Service promulgates acceptable standards of electronic record keeping...

MEMS for Viewing Faraway Galaxies

"Efforts to peer deep into the early universe are important to understanding its formation, but this requires the gathering of very faint infrared light--which is difficult because nearer, brighter objects overwhelm the signals of darker objects that are farther away. Now...