Author Archives: Alex Williams
How Soon Will Torchlight Parades Come to America?
Saturday, March 21, 2009 How Soon Will Torchlight Parades Come to America? According to reports, disgruntled taxpayers took a bus ride to visit the palatial estates of AIG executives to protest their bonuses. The citizens are being distracted by the bonuses, which are mere pocket change compared with the huge gobs of money the [...]
Difficulties Facing Renewables
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 Difficulties Facing Renewables In addition to the need to use fossil fuels to build the equipment for renewable energy sources (raising the question of ultimately how “renewable” they are), a recent news item tells us that T. Boone Pickens’ plan to build the world’s biggest wind farm has been stymied [...]
From the Second Balcony
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1816 From the Second Balcony Posted using ShareThis
