Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

This gallery is just awe inspiring. This would rank pretty much tops in my travel dreams. The music is “A Mumbai Theme Tune” by A. Rahman, which I think contributes greatly to the presentation (there are 200+ fotos, so it loops). Why, yes, those are Royal Enfields they’re riding. Brave souls.

SFChron: “One hundred miles per gallon,” offers Jay Jean Hank Ho, 23, drawing a cigarette from his pack. “With the impending economic collapse of the U.S. currency and the gas crisis, I’m preparing for the apocalypse with a moped.”

I’m patiently waiting for the C3 to arrive (no pedals, though).

Philg expounds on the real political divide: “Those who get their money every year as a salary tend to be Democrats. Those who start small businesses and get their money in big lumps as capital gains when they sell those businesses tend to support the Republicans.”

Did the ancient Egyptians have light bulbs? I found this browsing through Wikipedia’s fascinating list of unsolved problems.

Dendera light: Controversy arose when the main object in the images was interpreted by some as electric lamps based on comparison to modern devices.

Among most of the people I know who identify themselves as either liberals or Democrats, Jimmy Carter pretty much gets a free pass as an example of “what a U.S. president ought to be.” Here’s a neocon’s perspective on Carter.

commentary magazine: . . . the path that led him to that dramatic moment was a tortuous one, known to few outside of Georgia, and it shed light on the man who five years later would be promising voters across the country: “I will never lie to you.”

Doesn’t this sound familiar?

Wash. Post: So now it can be told: President Bush has a secret plan to end the war in Iraq. Henry Kissinger, who as Richard Nixon’s secretary of state learned something about secret plans, went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to argue that Bush, too, has such a proposal.

Saw Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth last nite for the first time. I can conclude a few things:

1. Al’s understanding of the environment was a bigger threat to the oil companies than I thought.
2. Al holds a grudge.
3. I own six (6) internal-combustion engines, and I’m worried for our daughter’s future.

I’ve been hit over the head with the concepts in this film for some time through things I read, but Al really does make it crystal clear in a way that makes it a moral and not a political issue. Anyone who disagrees that global warming is real and exacerbated by man is either unable to reason or immoral, or both.
ClimateCrisis.net