Environmentalists can be too quick to lay blame on the energy industry for global warming. A recent summit in Oklahoma of alternative energy hosted by Congressman Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, was a reminder of the difficulties of the blame game: energy consumption is consumer driven. This was not a summit on energy conservation, although sustainability was […]
Continue reading →In a recent blog posting, Ewan McIntosh makes a note of Andrew Keen and, to quote Ewan, “Dave Weinberger’s superb riposte of it.” The title and subtitle of Keen’s book does well to summarize his ideas: The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our […]
Continue reading →As newly released report from the US. Dept of Ed’s National Center for Education Statistics show high school students have at least a basic understanding of economics. I’m not going to go into what they are testing. A much more interesting result from the study is that student scores from those taking economics classes are […]
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