On the Gulf Oil Spill anniversary

"\"TweetShareShareTo confirm a single statistic I wanted to share about a year after BP’s Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 men and countless creatures and spewed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 86 days, I stopped...

To tax or not to tax

"TweetShareSharePresident Obama’s remarks on fiscal policy today put forth a few numbers worth committing to memory before the forthcoming, protracted budget debates: “So here\u2019s the truth.\u00a0 Around two-thirds of our budget ...

What’s a watt? Get on a bike.

"\"TweetShareShareI checked the output of our rooftop solar panels just now, at 11:28 a.m. On a sunny, brisk Denver day (briskness doesn’t affect solar output), our 13 east-facing 220-watt panels were cranking out 2,476 watts, according to...

A bit about the independence movement

"TweetShareShareJ.B. Opdyke, a teammate on the Michigan soccer team 20+ years ago, recently sent me a book he edited, called Talk\/Talk. It is, as I mentioned in a review, “a compilation of talking heads talking about the talk of talking hea...