Even If Bitcoin Is A Scam – As Paypal CEO Says – Doesn’t Mean...
The ex-CEO of Paypal - and of Intuit - is insistent that Bitcoin is simply a grand scam, a pump and dump, even a...
The Graveyard Is This Way, Sir
Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted in the Boston Herald celebrating a consensus reached in his state:
Massachusetts is...
Owen Jones Cannot Understand – Food Banks Exist Because Government Is Incompetent
Owen Jones treats us to another tirade, this time on the iniquity of the existence of food banks. Us adults take a rather different...
Friends Of The Earth – Fracking Will Occupy 0.01382% Of The UK. Let’s Do...
Friends of the Earth has a new little reportette out insisting that fracking will take up so much of our green and pleasant land...
Lampert Offers To Buy Kenmore, Other Brands, From His Own Sears
Eddie Lampert is offering us all a master class in how to dismember a company. Sears Holdings, where he and his hedge funds are...
US Inequality Hasn’t Risen Quite As You Think
An interesting paper about US inequality. Do note that they're measuring losses as relative to inequality having not risen - that tells us nothing...
Plastic Packaging Is Often Pollution For Profit
This was originally published at The Conversation.
You benefit from plastic from the moment you get up and use your toothbrush or kettle. Plastic is...
Airline Safety Takes Center Stage – In Full Make-Up
This week, a passenger jet at 30,000 feet had an engine fail. One of the blades of the fan that rams air into the...
Vince Cable’s Confused About His Tech Titan Break Up Plans
But then, of course, Vince Cable's rather confused about a number of things, isn't he? What makes it worse here is that Vince was...
Therefore We Should Trade Ivory And Eat Elephants
A report insisting that man has been responsible for the extinction of most to many of the megafauna. Entirely true of course, the big...