I guess profits in the billions every quarter for the last couple of years just isn’t helping Exxon stay afloat, so the Supreme Court just declared that the $2.5 billion in punitive damages owed for the Valdez oil spill in Alaska is just too much and it should be reduced to $507 million. This [...]
So you think that $50 tank of gas is bad…wait until you then drive to the store to find everything in it costing 20% more! Unfortunately we have built our society around the idea of cheap and plentiful oil, and it looks like that era is coming to an end. In the span [...]
My wife wears contact lenses and orders them from 1-800-Contacts because it seems to be the least expensive option for whatever version she needs for her eyes. But a box of them just showed up the other day, and this is all that was in the box:
The box was huge and all that was in [...]
After the cyclone hit Burma earlier this week, it is estimated at at least 100,000 people have died. Remember Katrina? Remember 9-11? The entire world came to our aid, and now it’s our turn to do something for these poor impoverished people who are getting no help from their own oppressive government. [...]
