- Buffett’s $7 Million Sacrifice Is Only a Start: Jonathan Weil – Bloomberg.
- Investors who follow Buffett in BofA may be sorry | Reuters.
- Steve Jobs Steps Down, Tim Cook Named Apple CEO | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
- Pat Robertson says Crack In Washington Monument Is A Sign From God » Liberal Values.
- Thanks to my friend Dave Northrup I found out God has his own blog! Paul Simms: “God’s Blog” : The New Yorker. (Great comments on it too!)
- Richard Dawkins on Rick Perry (who I think is arguably the worst candidate for President of the United States I have seen in my lifetime) Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact – On Faith – The Washington Post.
- No, there is no room for science in the GOP base | The Zingularity.
- Ron Paul Rejects Evolution Too : Dispatches from the Creation Wars.
- Perry Explains Abstinence-Only Sex Ed | Dispatches from the Culture Wars. An epic fail on Perry’s part.
- 6 Tips for Evacuating from Hurricane Irene | How to Prepare for a Hurricane Evacuation | Life’s Little Mysteries. Apropos I guess since earlier this evening I was looking at the storm track on Hurricane Tracker – weather.com and it showed the center passing just 4 miles to my east sometime Sunday. Hope that changes but it is still going to be pretty bad.
- “If you are Anti-Science, You are Anti-Jobs” « Climate Denial Crock of the Week.
- Think Again: Kochs: Life Is Good.
“Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. He thinks this to be both morally wrong and practically misguided, and he said so in a New York Times op-ed recently, complaining that he and his fellow gazillionaires have been “coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.”Buffett’s argument was refuted by the right-wing billionaire and funder of extremist organizations, Charles Koch, who justifies his puny tax rate with the argument that government spending often “does more harm than good,” and adds, “my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.”Well, they are certainly more beneficial to Koch personally. His fortune not only benefits from the low taxes he pays but also from significant public subsidies. […]” - China Eyes Competitive Edge in Renewable Energy.
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