What’s the most fuel efficient car?
We’re all paying record high prices for gas making us chumps to the super profitable oil companies. Many people are taking hybrid cars more seriously now. So just which car is the most fuel efficient?
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A Drop In the Ocean
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. –Mother Teresa
Read moreI'm Baaaaaccckk!
And I actually have been away. Of course being away no longer means leaving your web access behind, but work and work related travel has just been a bear the past few weeks. Lots of things due on short time schedules, and I’ve been traveling as well. Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, then Chicago again Monday after being told Friday to be there, and that precluded a trip to Boston.
Read moreIs there such a thing as a Second World Country
Third World countries (now known as “developing nations”) are countries with a low “Human Development Index.” First World countries (like the United States, Japan, and Germany) score much higher on the HDI. A nation’s HDI is determined by its literacy rate, poverty rate, life expectancy, etc. There is indeed a Second World, though the expression isn’t exactly parallel to the other terms, and these days, few mention it.
Read moreThe Price of Success
The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper. –Anonymous
Read moreAbandoned Not
I guess it’s looking as if I’ve abandoned the blog. You couldn’t be so lucky.
Read moreThe Immortal Flow of Energy
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. –Smiley Blanton
Read moreWilderness
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there….We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. –Edward Abbey
Read morePower Is An End
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. –Orwell, 1984
Read moreThe Dark Heart of Darth Cheney's Daughter
Mary Cheney “doesn’t have the luxury”? She has every luxury. If she wasn’t already, she’s now the poster child for those who just want those slightly icky gay people to keep their sex lives to themselves. You know — “Mary Cheney doesn’t throw it in our faces, why do you have to?” — as if demanding equality somehow equates to having sex in public.
Read moreA Stroke Of Marketing Brilliance
Not unusually, one of the pizza delivery companies decided they should distribute those door hanger tags with coupons throughout some south Tampa neighborhoods.
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