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Daily Archives: June 15th, 2007

The Yes Men Strike

Friday, June 15, 2007

This is cool: “Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless” – unless their bodies could be turned into fuel. That was the satirical message delivered by two corporate ethics activists to the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. The activists, […]

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Intended consequences

Friday, June 15, 2007

What a surprise. We’ve all heard of the law of unintended consequences, but what about all of the obvious consequences of stupid policy, such as the possibility that the United States, with ample Democratic support (see, e.g., here ) , will try to replace carbon based fuels with biofuels, which may themselves do little to […]

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Laws or men?

Friday, June 15, 2007

Now that Libby has been sent to jail by Judge Walton, we will learn whether we are a government of laws and not of men. I’m not talking about a possible pardon, which would only confirm what we all know: that Bush and his gang are a bunch of petty criminals. Libby will ask the […]

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