From the Guardian: a confidential report from the World Bank reveals that biofuels have driven food prices up by as much as 75%. Not much of a surprise that this is happening – the global appetite for both food and energy are insatiable, and you just can’t put all of the strain of that demand [...]
Kindly lifted from Talking Points Memo, here is the transcript of a speech that Barack Obama gave in Pennsylvania today. Already pundits are descending upon his words and picking them apart for sound bytes. And to be sure, they will lift sentences and phrases to use out of context, boiling down one of the most [...]
My friend J, an economics major and also a fervent Obama-maniac, just posted this on his Facebook. He is submitting it to a newspaper, but had to chop it up significantly to pass the 200 word limit. Thought I’d pass it along in it’s original version: Listening to the sound bites and reading the one-liners [...]
For the first time since, well, ever, I am energized and optimistic about a candidate with a real chance at winning the election, and changing the face of politics in my cynical country: So fired up, that I endured a chilly two-hour wait to go see Obama at the Municipal Hall Auditorium in KC on [...]
