Posted inCurrent affairs

Romney wants to raise your taxes; Obama to lower them

Unless you make a lot of money each year -- $500,000 or more, basically -- your taxes will go up if Mitt Romney becomes president and carries out his plan to cut taxes for the very rich, and raise them for everybody else. So says the well-respected Tax Policy Center.  Performed by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, the study shows that Mitt Romney’s proposal would lead to significantly lower taxes for the rich, and a higher tax burden on middle- and lower-income taxpayers. So says PolitiFact, the well-respected fact-checker. Obama said Romney…
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Posted inCurrent affairs Sustainability

Global warming linked to extreme weather in new study

Another nail has been driven into the anti-science coffin of global warming deniers. A peer-reviewed nail. Tomorrow a study will be published by the United States National Academy of Sciences. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, describes the findings in "Climate change is here -- and worse than we thought." In a new analysis of the past six decades of global temperatures, which will be published Monday, my colleagues and I have revealed a stunning increase in the frequency of extremely hot summers, with deeply troubling ramifications for not only our future but also for…
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Posted inWeb/Tech

Forgive me, Apple: I prefer Chrome to Safari

Because I worship at the altar of all things Apple'ish (my wife and I have two iPhones, a Macbook Pro laptop, an iMac desktop, an iPad, and Apple TV), sometimes my brief acquaintance with Catholicism as a kid leads me to confess to the Great God Apple when I feel that I've sinned. ------------------------------ Dearly beloved lord of my cyberspace connections, praise be to your marvelous omniscience, which was manifested most recently in my life by a smooth upgrading to the Mountain Lion operating system on both of our Apple computers. I am so happy that I converted from the…
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