Random links
- Shock Value
- "The avant-garde theater at Chapel Hill, however, no longer attacks the sensibilities of the students, but rather provides them with the sort of work they want to see in the first place—work that does not challenge their moral paradigm, but confirms it—because the moral paradigm implicit in the avant-garde has now become the moral paradigm of much of the middle class. This, of course, is done in the guise of carrying on the tradition of the avant-garde. What is really avant-garde today, in the original, combative sense of the term, is to stand for life, for beauty, and for truth. Nothing shocks us more."
- Huh? Brand-New Chevy Volts Cost Thousands Less Than ‘Pre-Owned’ Models
- The wonders of distorted tax incentives - the dealerships get the $7500 government incentive payment and can sell the car above list price (which they can get as there are production shortages).
- TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda
- Some of his (Ben Shapiro's) previous stuff seemed a bit staged... not sure how this'll compare
- Spanish judge orders 25-yr old man to 'leave home and get a job'
- The story reads like the inverse of the headline, e.g., "He did, however, order them to pay their son 200 euros a month for the next two years 'to help with his emancipation'." Another similar example is also included in the story. It does note a 43% youth unemployment rate though - yikes!
- Can I See Your License, Registration and C.P.U.?
- How would driverless cars impact society? e.g. "About 40,000 Americans die each year in car accidents. Would driverless cars reduce this toll? We’ll need further tests and development to know for sure. But the way things stand now, we may never get the chance to find out."
- Ooops! Biodegradeable products release methane which is more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas
- As the article notes with methane capture systems in a modern landfill this effect can largely be averted, so it doesn't really seem as bad as it initially sounds. Reason to upgrade landfills that don't implement methane-capture though.