Last week, I noted a December story from the New York Times regarding the shrinking global supply of food. That story was buried in section C. Today’s Times carries a more prominent piece on the global shortage of food oil, palm oil particularly. Like the earlier piece, this story highlights the competition between the first […]
I was in an upscale restaurant Sunday night and the waitress was giving the specials and she described the fish special as “water fish.” “Excuse me?” I said. “What’s water fish?” “Oh, that’s pollock. It’s a white fish, light, flaky….” “From the Atlantic or Pacific?” “Gee… I don’t know….” For the record, pollock is not […]
I should have known and checked on Saturday. The Bush administration, top to bottom, releases bad news on Friday. This rule even applies to fairly obscure agencies like the Energy Information Administration, which updated its world oil supply and demand numbers Friday. The news is bad once again. (To see the numbers, click here scroll […]
A friend tipped me off to a small story from last month’s New York Times: “World Food Supply Is Shrinking, U.N. Agency Warns” You’d think it would be front page news, but it was buried in the section C. Food prices are spiking, especially for the world’s poorest people. Global warming is causing crops to […]
The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that various telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps when the bureau failed to pay its bills, one as high as $66,000. The FBI, which has trouble keeping track of guns, computers and evidence, pleaded administrative incompetence. So, either: Telephone companies don’t mind unconstitutional breaches of citizens’ rights, […]
New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson dropped from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight, making my New Hampshire prediction a wee bit more accurate, although he did not endorse Barack Obama. Fred Thompson? Duncan Hunter? You listening?
According to a report in today’s Washington Post 35,000 people moved to Florida last year. This was unusual, because the Sunshine State’s annual population are more on the order of the 268,000 who moved there in 2005. The Post reporter, Peter Whoriskey, speculates that high taxes and the cost of hurricane insurance are making Florida […]
