"John McCain’s health care plan is rubbish. So says everyone. Most of the summaries I’ve seen have focused on the fact that twenty million will likely lose their employer-cushioned coverage, and that the individual market is horrible to those who have been ill, or for those who are obese.

The plan is rubbish, for all the reasons cited. But it’s rubbish for more reasons. It’s rubbish because it’s made of rubbish."

"Consideration of WALLY was added to the agenda in response to letters sent by the mayor of Ann Arbor, John Hieftje, and chair of the Washtenaw County board of commissioners, Jeff Irwin, to the AATA board, asking that the AATA take a “leadership role” in the project, which envisions commuter rail service from Howell down to Ann Arbor. Nacht put the letters from the city and the county in the context of a request from U.S. Congressman John Dingell, who in a recent meeting with key players stressed the need to establish a legal authority, so that he could find federal money to help fund it."

"… We’d hate that to happen to you, because you can actually write, and having giles coren is a sanctimonious little twat who needs to get over himself could be quite costly in T-shirt lettering…."

"Back in May this year, California announced an 800MW solar farm project as a part of plans to cut greenhouse emissions. As we can see, the state is really warming up to achieve its goal. No doubt other cities in the state will also come up with similar plans to tackle the greenhouse gas emission. Beginning in 2007, the California Energy Commission managed $350 million targeted for new residential building construction. It will use funds already allocated to the Energy Commission to foster renewable projects between 2007 and 2011. According to the California Energy Commission, the so called "New Solar Homes Partnership" will focus on new residential construction."