This petition trying to get the Governer to pardon Paris Hilton blows me away. Here's a snippet from the petition.

From:
www.ipetitions.com/petition/PH21781/

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She provides hope for young people all over the U.S. and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.

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I can't speak for anyone else, but my extremely mundane life would be more exciting if she did *more* jail time, not less.

Increase the sentence. ... read more

The game is set in dilapidated Detroit, a city whose population has shrunk by over 50% since its peak in the industrial heydey of the 1950s. The game is being played at Ford Field, it's namesake corporation recently announcing a 30,000 worker layoff, surely not the last.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, both of whose nickname and location are tied to that same former industrial glory, is an very apt metaphor for the same. Proud traditions, former glories, 4 Super Bowl Championships.

The Seattle... read more

Like a warm breeze on a summer night, invisible, yet pervasive.

I crush spirits, rock worlds, crumple empires, slay all in my thrall.

What am I?

I've seen one example of a corporation that has seen the threat that global warming poses to their business and is actually doing something about it.

Swiss Re, the world's 2nd largest reinsurer (reinsurers insure insurance companies and are very big money entities) has been warning that climate change due to global warming could do up to $150 billion in damage over the next ten years.

Obviously they are concerned because it'll affect their bottom line. I think one of the reasons that th... read more