I would say in this case that it's satirizing something so stupid sincerity is indistinguishable from satire. I've read marketing materials that read pretty much like this.

I'm usually not one to complain about article selection, even political ones, but his one is just silly. Ron Paul's solution for -everything- is to just pull the plug.

So you think that the US constitution should be up for re-confirmation every 10 years?

Well firstly, your power company obviously knows who it is buying from and of course what it is producing itself. Here in San Diego, SDG&E gets (off the top of my head) about %50 of it's power from the San Onfre Nuclear Power plant, the next biggest portion from the two natural gas plants it operates locally, and the rest from two interconnects to the North and to the East as well as occasionally from Mexico from the south. Those outside links are a mix of hydro (hoover dam), natural gas, coal and a small amount of solar and wind. There is a break down on my power bill that pretty much lays it out just like that. So by the largest part, I picked nuclear.

Secondly though, it doesn't really matter exactly where the electromotive force coming into my house really comes from exactly. Of course it all goes into a big pool, but you are still paying the producer to add to the pool an amount equal to that I consumed.

I don't think that chart means what you think it does with "highways" listed as zero substitutes. Where do you think highways come from?

I actually did exactly that to an actor once at my community college, opps.

It's very easy to forget to mute a channel on an audio mixer when you often have dozens of them.

I just heard the news in the few short minutes of NPR top headlines on one of the public radio classical stations. They covered about as much as in the summery above.

That seems an honest and respectful amount of news.