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I'm not a fan of conservative ideologies. I see them as regressive and stifling. Too often there is a quasi-religious adherence to "free market" as the solution to all life's problems, usually accompanied by the corollary "lower taxes". Whether or not one agrees that these principles are bad…
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post with the above title, about the way that biofuel and meat production in the US was pushing up world food prices. I observed, as has been documented in any number of studies, that when the world's poorest people and the world's richest people's vehicles (or…
Quark Soup has a post comparing the spill to Niagara; and notes that the spill would be a cube ~93m on a side. Checkling the share price (still hovering around 4.10, so neither good news nor bad) I see BP are starting to ask others to pay up for their shares. It will be interesting to see how that…