Got a few things that have caught my eye lately...
China houses 10 MILLION quake survivors in temporary prefab housing. FEMA could barely handle a hundred thousand or so.
On the military:
The Pentagon as global landlord. Some interesting statistics about the Department of Defense.
The Caleb Campbell Story from Deadspin. Very serious journalism out of Deadspin. Good work.
Greatest Twitter Tweet Ever. No other way to describe it.
On the economy:
Joyous that oil prices have been going down? Don't get too excited yet. A lot of it is due to central banks and the Fed propping up the dollar. A moderate sized intervention has a widespread effect, given how over leveraged most players in the market are.
How the rich think about money. God bless British journalists. They have to do this with ridiculous libel laws. I dare any American journalists to get something like this published.
Some property news:
Section 8 moves to the suburbs.
In New Orleans housing market, Uptown shines while St. Tammany takes a bad hit.
A portrait of the true victim of corruption. From our Karen Gadbois.
Politics:
GOP drops like a stone in voting rolls ...Except in Louisiana. Even Kentucky is smarter than us.
"Principaled conservatism out of Baton Rouge" HA!
On Energy:
The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius. Suck on this smug hippies: you Prius is soaked in the blood of slave laborers!
Great map of the Gulf of Mexico with infrastructure and lease blocks. Be warned, very big PDF file. Unless you work out there, people don't realize how much infrastructure there is offshore.
Chuck Schumer is about the last person you want to listen to when it comes to energy. He wanted to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as, "world oil prices continue their meteoric ascent to nearly $25 per barrel. "
LA Gangs Experiment with Pedal-By Shootings. Reducing your carbon emissions? You know gas prices are getting bad when...
On Evolution:
Tech geek takes on creationist in Kansas. I kicked into his campaign.
Colleges allowed to refuse admissions to students who have creationism in their science classes. Good. Maybe when little Johnny from Mandeville High gets turned down for Columbia, then Louisiana parents might get what Jindal's stealth creationism bill means in the long term to Louisiana. Also, I just realized we have a Louisiana Science Coalition. Anyone a member? How can I sign up?
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