Comparing energy used per passenger-mile (calories), they found that a bicycle needed only 35 calories, whereas a car expended a whopping 1,860. Bus and trains fell about midway between, and walking still took 3 times as many calories as riding a bike the same distance.
An added bonus: those 35 burned calories come from your weight total, not from a Saudi oil well.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ted Stevens explains the Internets to us. Yes, this guy is the chair of the committee in charge of legislation regulating the Internets.
Your U.S. Senate Republican leadership in action.
Well, this is one way for a church to spend $260,000. No doubt many people in the community will benefit from it.
One commenter’s reference to graven images seems appropriate.
An interesting take on Hamden. Love this line:
Ironically, Justice Thomas refers to Justice Stevens’ “unfamiliarity with the realities of warfare”; but Stevens served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. Thomas’s official bio, by contrast, contains no experience of military service.
It seems there’s more than one reason why Thomas is the model justice for Bush, Limbaugh, and company.
Why do they hate our freedoms?
“[W]ere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Sometimes these days I look around and wonder if I have woken up in a different country. In the past few days I’ve heard a number of people on TV and the radio claiming that the NY TImes, not the leakers, should be prosecuted for a story regarding what the government is doing.
At first glance ardent civil libertarians might be forgiven for not taking this talk seriously. But as Atrios notes, it’s time for thos in the media to confront the newspaper police:
As treason charges against the New York Times (but not, oddly, the Wall Street Journal) are getting thrown around on various “respectable” news outlets by people working in “journalism” I think it’s probably time for the serious reporters at those outlets to inform management that their resignations will be forthcoming if it doesn’t stop.
You’d think that by now elite journalists, especially the Washington press corps, would have had enough with the treatment and threats its received from the Bush administration. But apparently special government access carries an awfully high price.
