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Atlas bombed: Right-wing think tanks betray ignorance on energy

By Erik Curren | May 16, 2011

Atlas Shrugged movie still

I want to get this review out fast, because, by the time you read it, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, which came out in mid-April, may already have left the theaters. Critics have roundly panned the movie version of free-market goddess Ayn Rand's 1957 novel for weak acting by B-list actors and a script with dialogue so wooden it could only have been phoned in from the men's room at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Cato Institute, conservatives, FreedomWorks, high speed rail, Reason Foundation, Tea Party

Post-carbon (and post-uranium) Japan

By Vicki Lipski | March 22, 2011

Bamboo House

It’s so difficult to grasp the enormity of what has happened, and is happening, in Japan. As if an earthquake and subsequent tsunami weren’t enough, the Japanese government must also deal with the possibility of nuclear meltdown – not once, but several times! This is the first time the words “perfect storm” have occurred to me. But there can be no doubt that events in Japan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: apocalypse, clean energy, high speed rail, Japan crisis, nuclear power, solar power

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