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Behind, I Guess

This has been going around for a couple of days. It’s actually really good. This guy’s voting McCain-Palin, and he tells you why. The analogy to crabs in a bucket is genius. “Matt...

Empire of Yin - Part 2: The Persistent Blindness of Superiority

Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins; Vanity – circa 1475-1480 The seer As a tyke, I sat in Catechism classes wearing the red neckerchief and Karl Marx pin of the socialist Young...

Fear and panic trump good economic news as loonie, markets pounded

The Canadian Press - TORONTO - The loonie took a pounding and Canadian markets plunged Friday as mounting fears of a global recession sank oil prices and offset good employment news and government...

Hookah: The (not so) Good, the (very) Bad and the Ugly

“The waterpipe smoker may therefore inhale as much smoke during one session as a cigarette smo

Administration supports multiple measures

Now they tell us. Back during the debate over reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, many organizations, including NSBA, pushed for including multiple measures of student achievement to more...

Loonie falls 2.4 cents in early trading despite good economic news

The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Dropping oil prices and economic instability knocked the stuffing out of the loonie Friday, dragging down the currency to one of its biggest daily losses ever.

Stock and Awe in Baghdad

The Markets have spoken, the best place to invest in the world is...Iraq!Now it’s stock and awe in Baghdad!As the Dow plummeted nearly 700 points yesterday to fall well below the 9,000 mark, the...

Volvo shows off new hybrid bus series

Filed under: Hybrid, Volvo, European UnionAlthough European cities have a lot of the latest trends in urban mobility, there aren't many hybrid buses on their streets. Volvo thinks that this could be...

Loonie falls in early trading despite good economic news as oil prices drop

The Canadian Press - TORONTO - Dropping oil prices and economic instability are knocking the stuffing out of the loonie.

Hybrid taxis in NY endangered?

Filed under: Hybrid, Ford, USALet's get one fact straight right off the bat: no current vehicles on American roadways were designed from the start to serve as taxis. Sure, the Crown Victoria from...