Check out the new Chevy Volt electric hybrid car here. It’s set to roll out in late 2010, a mere two years after my 1975 Dodge Dart is expected to finally crumble into dust. Sweet.
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Chevy Volt: first look
Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.
Check out the new Chevy Volt electric hybrid car here. It’s set to roll out in late 2010, a mere two years after my 1975 Dodge Dart is expected to finally crumble into dust. Sweet.
Global warming is all in our minds. Also an apparent figment of our imagination: more than 100 people (so far) who have died as a direct cause of the current heat wave sweeping California.
While NASA has actually removed the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” from its mission statement, an obvious sign that the idiotic monkey-hear, monkey-repeat global-warming deniers in Washington have them under their ridiculously fat thumbs, they’ve also been cutting or delaying programs intended to figure this climate change thing out.
So, has the politicization of science gone from merely hurting children by denying the obvious reality of evolution to actually killing people by denying the obvious reality of the global warming catastrophe?
So who’s on the side of citizenry, if our government wants to roll over and play stupid while we roast in the ever-increasing temperatures that are currently making our little planet a little less inhabitable each day? (Certainly not Republicans, who defiantly show their disgust with the poor by continually voting not to increase the minimum wage, all the while voting to give themselves raises and give tax cuts to the poor rich people in this country.)
What’s the real deal here, then? Is the U.S. government trying to enslave its own people by creating an environment where we have no recourse or protection from calamity without paying? Has America finally been turned over to Big Business? Where has all this incredible ignorance come from, and why is it actively trying to take us back to the Dark Ages, when common people were literally at the mercy of all-powerful tyrants? And how is it that We, the People, are actually letting this happen to us?
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You may have a case of the humans!
Three Legged Legs – “Humans!”
A hilarious and depressing short animation about the scourge upon Earth that is humanity.
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link roundup
Woman, 56 and wheelchair-bound, killed by Taser. Taser use is quickly getting out of control. When i lived in Jacksonville, Florida, it was practically a death sentence to be mentally impaired and have a bad day. I remember several incidents where citizens would have a bit of a public freak-out and wind up in the morgue. Then, it was a case of the police using unsafe choke holds. Now, they’re using the magic of electricity to subdue. I think it’s just a little too easy. I mean, i don’t like guns one bit, but this allegedly non-violent solution is unfortunately a heavy factor in many unnecessary deaths. From a related article:
And even though Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser, Inc–the company that created it–said it should never be used on children or the elderly, Florida leads the nation in deaths by Taser. The oldest victim to date? Ninety-five. The youngest? A 6-year old boy.
Googlemap of historic nuclear accidents. Spooky, and makes you rethink how safe nuclear energy is.
ACLU releases its FOIA-enabled report on prisoner abuse.
Boing Boing has a great roundup of Immigrants’ Rights rallies for May 1.
Neil Young‘s new Living With War album now streaming. It’s a fuckin’ scorcher of a rock record!
Weird Video: “Stop the Madness,” the only White House-sponsored rock video ever made. Antidrug. Very, very bizarre. I’m telling you, i actually took drugs just so i could stop this madness. [disclaimer: i do not use any drugs besides nicotine these days.] Although this video probably aired less than 20 times nationwide, it was probably actually really, really cool… for a negative amount of time. Seeing such sights as Nancy Reagan lip-synching the words, and a living, talking threatening David Hasselhoff poster, however, may make you feel like you really are on drugs.
Weird Video: C for Cookie, a V for Vendetta spoof. Awesome!
Weird Video: New Logitech Orbit webcam. Awesome!