Vas Ist Das Hybrid?
Business Week sorts out just how Germany fell behind in hybrid auto production.
…The original plan was to introduce hybrid versions of three SUVs: the VW Touareg, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne. But that deadline has now proved to be unrealistic. VW will unveil its first hybrids next year, but they will not be available for [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
AC/DC: “Baby, Please Don’t Go”
Closer…Closer
Attorneygate heats up, as Raw Story reports that a key advisor to Karl Rove is about to leave her post:
Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush’s key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified in [...]
Having Your Cake and Being Eaten by It, Too
If ever there were a story that summed up America’s conflicted feelings about immigration, this is it. Our executive class loves cheap labor, while their pet politicians love pandering to our xenophobia. Sometimes the irresistible force loses:
The head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along [...]
Not Yet Censored in China
Sergeant John: still available to Chinese surfers! What’s a brother got to do to get banned?
Note: web sites become inaccessible for many technical and administrative reasons. Only a positive result (available) from this test is definitive.
How’s that Surge Workin’?
More than a hundred people died violently today in and near Baghdad:
Both areas — a bazaar in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Shaab and the farming town of Khalis in Diyala province — are populated predominantly by Shiites, and Iraqi government officials quickly blamed the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. The attacks followed two [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“One of them is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.”
—The Tempest, 5.1.265-66
