Month: March 2007

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Humor

Kids

03/28/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Kids
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve.And the first thing He said was “Don’t”“Don’t what?” Adam replied.“Don’t eat the forbidden fruit,” God said.“Forbidden fruit?  We got forbidden fruit?”“Hey, Eve! We got forbidden […]
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Social/Environmental

Is ethanol the right thing?

03/27/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Is ethanol the right thing?
Ethanol production, as Tad Patzek of UC Berkeley’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering wrote in a report this year, is based on “the massive transfer of money from the collective pocket of the U.S. […]
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Social/Environmental

It ain’t easy bein’ GREthanolEN

03/27/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on It ain’t easy bein’ GREthanolEN
Since producing most domestic ethanol requires large amounts of fossil fuel, and regular gasoline provides about 30 percent more mileage per gallon than E85, it’s arguably preferable from a conservation standpoint to drive a stand […]
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Quotations

Self-made man

03/27/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Self-made man
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man.  We are made up of thousands of others.  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, […]
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General

Nevada

03/26/2007 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Nevada
… thrice blessed by being virtually farmer-free, a site upon which the Middle American equation of agricultural drudgery and Christian virtue has no traction, where mercantile virtues triumph and your average Nevadan’s experience of food […]