The question is not, where do we get the oil? The question is, how can we replace the oil?

Happiness is a choice. And it's a choice you can make.

So long as the most popular bloggers avoid the trappings of money and fame, so long as the readers of blogs remain vigilant and learn to ignore those who are corrupted, the blogosphere will remain in favor of reform.

the big news here was the team's ability to "cut" tubes into seeds in the first place. The technology goes by the name Single Wall NanoTube Amplification.

Unless and until we reverse course on energy, and get serious -- dead serious -- about replacing hydrocarbon sources with off-the-grid hydrogen, Putin will continue to re-Stalinize his part of the world.

Think of what happened last year, when gas prices were $3/gallon. People drove less. They drove more slowly. They honestly considered alternatives, in terms of where they lived and how they got around. As interest rates and gas prices reversed in late 2006, all these changes reversed as well.

Should the kids manage to top SMU next weekend, we will finally see what one-third of the world has been pining for – Rice in a bowl.

The Nixon Thesis worked. It brought the Movement to power. In the form of Reaganism, that movement triumphed in its ultimate aim, which was to win the Cold War through confrontation. But once that war was won, the assumptions of the Thesis continued to work, always seeking new enemies, and building those enemies into dire threats.

Change, and the need for change, continues to accelerate. I know there are people who complain about this. I am not among them. I am enormously thankful for it. It was to track change that I became a computer journalist, and I have not been disappointed.

What is interesting to me is that the Democratic Party today seems to have two strains in it, the descendents of the old Progressives, absorbed as part of the New Deal Era, and these new Populists. Had these forces been on the same side during the Progressive-Populist era just imagine the majorities they might have commanded.