the big bang model slipped and fell while walking down the runway. perhaps gravity can't be reverse engineered into this model of the universe because it's not exactly correct?

http://whorulesamerica.net

Sociologist Bill Domhoff has been working on American power structures for decades, really good stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

Could it be affecting our weather, too?

The vast majority of people in congress are there by no accident. They were pre-selected by our ownership class.

Oh you want academic research to back this up? http://whorulesamerica.net (sorry for the snarky website setup :) :) )

"If you think you are depressed, first make sure you're not surrounded by ass-holes."

Make sure you accept reality and your true self. Try to sungaze at least for sunset (sungazing = viewing first/last 15 minutes of sunlight on the horizon). Get outside. Listen to your body. Don't eat crap. Focus on what really matters to you in life. And call me in the morning.

The thermodynamic model of representing food as energy measured as calories is about as wrong as the stork model for reproduction. Sure a stork could physically bring a baby, but it's just not how things work. One way a body decides whether to store fat is insulin response. How exactly do calories account for that?

let's go ahead and make effect a verb since there is a difference between effect and affect as nouns...

Cars are unsustainable not because of their fuel type but because of the sheer amount of energy it requires to hurl ourselves around along with thousands of pounds of metal. It just not a great use of energy.

who said that? charlie sheen?

is money really supposed to be held long term? i think the original use of money was for short term transactions, the proverbial not taking the cow to a transaction and the indirect exchange (not having to trade your goods and services directly for the good and services you seek).

isn't it odd that money doesn't suffer from entropy (explicitly)?

Check out what these guys are doing to allow users temporary admin access to install whatever they want

http://www.gsc.edu/about/internal/it/tutorials/Pages/default.aspx

The link is "God-mode". It's actually fairly simple scripting to allow this. They also do some clever hardening of Windows to prevent viruses sans AV.

i was going to suggest something like #2 (shooting headsets) above. they use those some in my kids' school occasionally (case by case) to help them concentrate on their work.

the constitution aside, "eliminating" a u.s. citizen by drone strike on u.s. soil hits closer to home* for the american public. we've already eliminated citizens abroad with drone strikes, anyway, so either that is permitted under policy or there should be consequences for that action.

* this pun is collateral damage

Thanks for the video links! I'm only in the first hour now, but I'm seeing where the neo-conservatives got their starts...

A war would suit the Pentagon, but it's a difficult sell back home. They tried to sell it last year.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/us_media_takes_the_lead_on_iran/