I love to travel.  Well, not air travel–American carriers are atrocious, from their fight against security measures, horrific service, and filthy planes.  Southwest and Virgin America have become our luxury airlines, while the legacy carriers have become Greyhound with wings.  Sorry, that’s unfair to Greyhound.   But I’m not taking the Queen Mary to Asia [...]

Unless you’re completely apathetic, it’s painful to see what’s going on in Iran.  What was once one of the world’s most powerful and important powers is now a tragedy.  Years of plundering by the shahs’ regimes, and the rigidity and incompetence of the Islamic Republic has left this nation of over 70 million in economic [...]

I love The Economist.  I guess the UK has to have one tame level-headed publication considering its outrageous tabloids and magazines.  The latest little tidbit I ran into on their web site quoted an MIT professor’s study that basically says Not that a recession is good . . . it means promising economic initiatives such [...]

There’s been much discussion in the US and abroad about moving to a cap-and-trade system. How can I put this term in layman’s terms? Okay, I’m a dog owner, so let’s give you a real life scenario (if there’s such a thing in LA): (more…)

Every day I check the green tech news feeds and the biggest boldest headline today was titled, “US Lawmakers Formally Unveil Climate Change Bill.” I haven’t read it yet—I’ve been following the debate, and I’m fearful of what the bill will say. Overall, I tend to side with the Democrats on the environmental issues, but [...]