Memnison Journal

Well, they had them, and not all of them were found and properly disposed of,  apparently….

Rumors about a new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
A typical approach has been playing out at the Environmental Protection Agency, where the Obama team is led by Lisa Jackson, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and Robert Sussman, a former Clinton official and now a lawyer and fellow at the Center [...]

Article from a local newspaper about the groundwater contamination - in my neighborhood.   Yes, I knew about this.  Lockformer has a big sign out for 18 acres of property behind their factory for sale. 

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]

…here’s a way to have a way to buy a car you can fill up and run from your house system today,  With some caveats.

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

…and besides, unlike the wife, I’ve never gotten through his works.
Regular readers will note that the tags I put on posts are plentiful and sometimes sound goofy; that may be because it’s conceptual shorthand to me. ‘kubler-ross’, ‘renmin’, or ’sep_reality’, for example. The first has to deal with posts on death and [...]

Highly interesting thread in Randy McDonald’s LJ about the ticking timebombs of Chinese demographics and environmental pollution.
In the former, you sit hard on increasing the population by limiting new births, which means that you end up with an oversupply of dateless young men and a large retirement-age population they have to help support.  Happy happy [...]

WaPo:
The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he was demoted because of the report.
Chris De Rosa, former director [...]

My mom bought us a chest freezer as a present many years ago, and while I’m usually very ‘don’t toss it until it’s broke’, it was obvious that a replacement was in the cards, and Susan was strongly pushing for an upright freezer.  I have my own objections to such things, mostly because they’ve always [...]

From Autoblog Green, the Opel Flextreme versus the Chevy Volt.
Essentially the only thing that changes as you go from one E-Flex type to another is the source of electricity for that motor. All of the versions have the ability to be plugged in to a local electrical outlet and draw power from the grid or [...]

Three excellent articles in SALON this morning; I subscribe to the sucker, but you can get daypasses to it without much trouble.
Why is it that there’s so much corrupt pork in Alaska politics? In a state where the U.S. government still owned 60 percent of the land, and the population was settled too sparsely [...]

I thought I’d heard the end of orphanage-abuse stories for a while.  I was wrong.   This one’s in Iraq.
Chinese air pollution from coal emissions have now made it the top CO2 emitter in the world. One of the big culprits - cement production.  Think about the stuff behind that…the size and reasons for making that [...]

The debate on Ron Paul. (Interesting stuff, re the back and forth, but I agree on the statement that it would be nice if both parties had someone you didn’t look at with utter revulsion or despair).
Are you a Sunni spy for Iraq, or are you a Sunni spy for Iraq?  Decisions, Decisions.
The Big Gay [...]

“The village leaders don’t live here,” says Zhang Xianjiang, pointing his finger. “They live in the city where it’s cleaner. But we don’t have any money, so we have to stay where we are.”
Bush declares “National Sanctity of Human Life Day”. (photo essay, disturbing images, NSFW)
Woman induces labor so her husband can watch the Bears [...]