With all the talk of the value of a sustainable carbon footprint, how our energy usage compares to Europe, and our desires to "do something" to stop global warming, we never seem to get to the point where we truly visualize what something like that might really mean to you and me.

I found this article's photos to be a very interesting representation of what your future home might look like under truly sustainable scenarios.

Personally, I like 'em.

not a problem Ender, we will line up behind the nominee, it could still be Obama , its not over till its over .
Still it was good to see Chris Matthew's face looking all confused and crestfallen ., and almost speechless for once. The media have been beating up on Hillary for months , counting her out , I'm just glad to see them proved wrong for once..
Oh and all that tripe about the Republicans being eager to " run against Hillary " , its tripe , Ari Fleischer on Fox news this am had what I can only describe as a nauseous look on his face .

The Queen and King did not get overthrown and the Empire still stands.

How uninspiring.

Two steps forward, three steps back.

suggesting that france has the best healthcare in the industrialized world, and we have, well guess...

The UK only dies a little better than us, which is no surprise. Remember when the opponents of universal healthcare rail against the UK system that nobody in their right mind is suggesting we copy the UK system.

Maybe Bush can have some slave girls peel his grapes too:

Bush, who arrives in the Middle East on Wednesday for a visit lasting more than a week, had made a request to watch the sun rise over the Old City from his suite at the King David Hotel, a municipal spokesman said on Tuesday.

To make the scene more dramatic, the authorities have decided to turn off the lights illuminating the limestone walls before dawn on Thursday and Friday, the spokesman told reporters.

But wait, there's more. The emperor must recline in splendor:

Awaiting Bush at his King David suite -- reportedly costing 2,600 dollars a night -- will be a white terry bathrobe embroidered with his name in gold, local media have reported.

Israeli television broadcast footage of the garment throughout the day on Tuesday.

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world. That's what Kevin Drum links to today . The study by a pair of UK PhD's says:

"A pair of researchers has just published an update that compares various countries on their rates of "amenable mortality," defined as deaths that are "potentially preventable with timely and effective health care." In 1997, the United States ranked 15th out of 19 industrialized countries. So how are we doing now?

Answer: we're now 19th out of 19. The rest of the countries have improved their performance by an average of 16%, while the U.S., that well-known engine of healthcare innovation, has improved by only 4%. So now we're in last place.

But there's a bright side: at least our healthcare isn't funded by the government, like it is in France."

The kicker? If you go to the link, you'll see the graph & guess who ranks first? Yup, those damn cheese eating surrender monkeys (who have very good government paid healthcare) the French.

Thank god we're all getting bled dry. You can now start chanting: "We're 19th! We're 19th!"

When can we expect a Hagar the Horrible movie starring John Goodman as Hagar and Steve Buscemi as Lucky Eddie?

Which candidate will be the first to call for this?

In other wierdness:

Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/nyregion/09dead.html?ref=nyregion

...that the Army recruits idiots.

It doesn't matter how explicitly history makes the point, many military officers refuse to ever learn.