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Detroit – the New Trantor

Isn’t this what the remaining denizens of Trantor did after the collapse of the empire in the original “Foundation” trilogy?

Farm to Save Detroit:

[O]ne day about a year and a half ago, [investment manager John Hantz] had a revelation. “We need scarcity,” he thought to himself as he drove past block after unoccupied block. […]

Global Warming Insurance: Annotated

Some of my co-conspirators at People’s Press Collective have been having a little fun with the “global warming insurance” video…

“It’s not like you’re gonna give up your whole paycheck, it’s just a few bucks a month [that you’re gonna give up]”.

Dude…it’s not your money to take.

[hat tip: […]

Health Care Reform: Public Airplane

The Independence Institute explains via cartoon why NPR’s tortured “Public Airplane” analogy on health care reform doesn’t fly:

(Yes, the political stuff is taking up all my blogging time lately.)

A Taste of Their Own Medicine

In the Wall Street Journal, a Doctor’s Plan for Legal Industry Reform.

I liked this one for the snarkiness of it:

Discourage/eliminate specialization. Legal specialists with extra training and experience charge more money, contributing to increased costs of legal care, making it unaffordable for many. This reform will guarantee a selection of mediocre, unmotivated attorneys […]

“Anal Fissures? Not Covered!”

Thanks to Jon Caldara and Independence Institute’s latest video on health reform, I have now created probably the last blog post title I would have ever expected to use.

ABNA: So Much for the Novel Contest

For those of you who know about the book: it made it into the top 100, but Labyrinth of Night didn’t make the cut to the final three.

Ah well. Back to looking for an agent the old-fashioned way.

Xcel “Smart Meters” in Boulder: More Information for Better Consumer Choices?

Complete Colorado points to an article in the Daily Camera on Xcel’s efforts to install “smart grid” technology in (where else?) Boulder.

I definitely don’t like the idea of the power company (or envirokook do-gooders in the local government) having the authority to turn down my air conditioning or water heater whenever they find it […]

People’s Press Collective Gets Noticed by Washington Post

My other blogging project (the one that’s been taking all my time lately, hence the infrequent MarsBloggage) was named today as one of the best state political blogs by the Washington Post.

People’s Press Collective and our friends at Complete Colorado and Face the State took three of the five spots on the Colorado […]

Welcome to Starnesville

Compare this:

A few houses still stood within the skeleton of what had once been an industrial town. Everything that could move, had moved away; but some human beings had remained. The empty structures were vertical rubble; they had been eaten, not by time, but by men: boards torn out at random, missing patches of […]

Al Gore Celebrates ‘Earth Hour’…With Floodlights

You can’t make this stuff up:

As most of you know, just over two years ago, my organization, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, found that the knuckleheaded leader of the global warming alarmism movement, Al Gore, consumes 20 times more electricity in his home than the average American household.

Since Earth Hour was recognized […]

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