Those of us who pay lip service to green living can now be more genuinely P.C. — with the Dell Studio Hybrid PC, a fashionably curvy computer with special power-saving features.

And it's a hybrid of what, exactly? I don't see a gasoline or biodiesel engine anywhere. And in what configuration? Series? Parallel?

I think the answer to those questions is bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

-janelane, anti-greenwashing

A Green PC That’s Easier on the Electric Bill. The Bamboo Case Is Optional. - NYTimes.com

"We believe federal action agencies will err on the side of caution in making these determinations," the proposal said.

Let's see, what ELSE could Bush fuck up before leaving office? I know, those liberals using the ESA to protect ES from global warming. While he's at it, be sure to weaken the rules and rely on self-regulation by federal agencies to determine what harms species and what doesn't.

Yeah, cause that worked so well last time.

-janelane, won't this guy LEAVE ALREADY?

Bush could weaken Endangered Species Act - CNN.com

"duraweld keel cooler" yields just 3 results. Luckily, the first one does the trick.

-janelane

fewest results on google so far

Eighties-tastic!

YouTube - Killer Clowns From Outer Space

They had even intensively questioned his adopted children, Andrew and Amanda, now both 24, with the authorities telling his son that he might be able to collect the $2.5 million reward for solving the case and buy a sports car, and showing his daughter gruesome photographs of victims of the anthrax letters and telling her, “Your father did this,” according to the account Dr. Ivins gave a close friend.

As the investigation wore on, some colleagues thought the F.B.I.’s methods were increasingly coercive, as the agency tried to turn Army scientists against one another and reinterviewed family members.

One former colleague, Dr. W. Russell Byrne, said the agents pressed Dr. Ivins’s daughter repeatedly to acknowledge that her father was involved in the attacks.

“It was not an interview,” Dr. Byrne said. “It was a frank attempt at intimidation.”

Dr. Byrne said he believed Dr. Ivins was singled out partly because of his personal weaknesses. “They figured he was the weakest link,” Dr. Byrne said. “If they had real evidence on him, why did they not just arrest him?”

Now I hope he was guilty so that the FBI didn't drive an innocent man to suicide.

-janelane, against questionable tactics

Pressure Grows for F.B.I.’s Anthrax Evidence - NYTimes.com

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The civil lawsuit was filed after the disclosure of the sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, released in 2004. The existence of the scenes, accessible to knowledgeable players using third-party software, drew fierce condemnation from lawmakers and sparked a frenzy online. The suit accused the game’s makers of defrauding buyers by failing to disclose the scenes.

"Wag of my finger" to the designers for putting in the sex scenes, and another "wag" to the purchasers for not expecting the absolute worse that the designers could dish out.

-janelane, all my games are rated T

Settlement Over Sex Scenes in Grand Theft Auto Hits a Snag - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

For the last decade, Ron Temple has loaded and unloaded bags for United Airlines in Denver, earning more than $20 an hour, plus generous health and flight benefits. On July 6, as management grappled with the rising cost of fuel, Mr. Temple and 150 other people in Denver were offered an unpalatable set of options: they could transfer to another city, go on furlough without pay and hope to be rehired, or stay on at reduced hours.

Mr. Temple and his wife say they cannot envision living outside Colorado, and they probably could not sell their house. Similar homes are now selling for about $180,000, while they owe the bank $203,000.

So Mr. Temple took the third option. He reluctantly traded in his old shift — 3 p.m. to midnight — for a shorter stint from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. He gave up benefits like paid lunches and overtime. His take-home pay shrunk to $570 every two weeks from about $1,350, he said.

Mr. Temple’s wife, Ali, works as an aide at a cancer clinic, bringing home nearly $1,000 every two weeks, he said. But collectively, they earn less than half of what they did.

Suddenly, they are having trouble making their $1,753 monthly mortgage payment, he said. They are relying on credit cards to pay the bills, running up balances of $2,700 so far. Gone are their dinners at the Outback Steakhouse. Mr. Temple recently bought cheap, generic groceries from a church that sells them to people in need.

The problem is that their debt-to-income ratio before the cutback was already nearly 40% on just their mortgage alone. It should be 40% for all monthly "debts", including other debts, groceries, utilities, eating out, car payments, etc, making their financial situation precarious even before the cutback.

-janelane, homeowner

A Hidden Toll on Employment - Cut to Part Time - NYTimes.com

In our continuing saga entitled "It Depends on Who You Ask", 10 things not to worry about, including several related to the environment and this gem.

10. Unmarked wormholes. Could your vacation be interrupted by a sudden plunge into a wormhole? From my limited analysis of space-time theory and the movie “Jumper,” I would have to say that the possibility cannot be eliminated. I would also concede that if the wormhole led to an alternate universe, there’s a good chance your luggage would be lost in transit.

Unless you live like this guy, you'll just have to pick your battles.

-janelane, plastic bags - no, AC - yes, homegrown food - no, swimming with sharks - yes.

Findings - 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was charged Tuesday with making false statements after a wide-ranging probe into ties between an energy company and lawmakers in his home state, according to a federal indictment.

Hey, look! Mr. Bridge to Nowhere is back in the news again. What a sonofabitch that guy is.

-janelane, word to your mother

Grand jury indicts Alaska senator - CNN.com