Los Angeles Unveils World’s Largest Solar Plan

San Francisco is usually designated the green capital of California, but now LA is trying to take the City by the Bay’s crown with the world’s largest solar plan. Yesterday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a long-range plan to gather enough solar power to meet 10 percent of LA’s energy needs by 2020

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Danny Cipriani Is Now On Bench Duty

Danny Cipriani has been relegated to the bench for the autumn international with New Zealand after his error-strewn display during England’s humiliating defeat to South Africa.

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Blockbuster Launches Internet Movie Downloads

To better compete with Netflix and others, Blockbuster video will debut a new service today that will allow customers to download movies from their computer via the internet.

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15 Ways to Overcome Anger

Can you recall the last time you were really angry at someone? So much so that you were physically shaken just at the thought of them? Rarely does this feeling of anger help us in getting what we want.

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Welcome To A Paper Economy

The Fed is opening up another 800 billion dollars of loans. This puts its balance sheet at about 3 trillion, supposedly (I have my doubts about that number). For reference, before the crisis, the Fed's balance sheet was about 800 billion. In the old days this would have been called what it is: running the printing press hot.

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Florida's Gay Adoption Ban Overturned

Miami judge rules against Florida's ban on adoptions by gay people, finds 'no rational basis'

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Bowoto v. Chevron: White Guilt Clouds The Truth

Today features jury instructions and closing arguments in the trail of Bowoto v. Chevron. In the accounts of the trial, I've noticed an interesting pattern of the perspective of what I know call "White Activist Guilt". From that perspective, Chevron is the rich, bad "white" company, and the Nigerian militant groups attacking that company's employees and facilities are all good, non-violent folks.   This is the kind of view that has been presented by blogger Scott Gilmore, and others.  But his blog's arguably the best one solely dedicated to the Bowoto trial, so I'll start there.

The story he tells of a peaceful demonstration by Bowoto is just not true. But the real story of this case is the poor Nigerian economic development and that government's neglect in making life better for Nigeria's poor, who've formed militant groups to take whatever wealth they can.