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...Environmental Entrepreneurs "How business saw the light" [Jan. 15] stated, "2006 was the year corporations began acting as if their existence - like the rest of the planet's - was tied to the environment," but failed to mention the obvious motivator, rising oil prices. The article complained that "the Federal Government dragged its feet on alternative energy" without recognizing that taxpayers should be grateful, since venture capitalists are pouring billions into green technologies. Free markets work. Low-priced oil increases greenhouse gases; high-priced oil leads to economically viable alternatives. We tilt at windmills when we ignore this simple economic fact...
...hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play it. It's pop, therefore manufactured and disposable, right? What if I like...
...million. Roughly 800,000 of those sex workers were underage; most came from poor farming households in Thailand, as well as nearby Burma, Laos, Cambodia and China. Some came willingly to escape a life in the rice paddies. Others, of course, were sold into the business. Did I mention? Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, although you wouldn't know it to walk the streets of Bangkok...
...Consider the testy response of her adviser, Howard Wolfson, to Edwards' remarks recently. "If you're in Congress and you know that this war is going in the wrong direction, it is no longer enough to study your options and keep your own counsel," Edwards asserted. He didn't mention Clinton by name. But Wolfson gave Edwards' speech more publicity by taking the bait: "In 2004, John Edwards used to constantly brag about running a positive campaign. Today he has unfortunately chosen to open his campaign with political attacks on Democrats who are fighting the Bush Administration's Iraq policy...
...Kristol's lofty arguments to support the "surge," he forgot to mention one thing: more troops means more deaths. He asked that we bet hundreds of billions of additional dollars and risk thousands more casualties on the faint hope that we will prevail, despite the conclusion of many Americans that the chances of success are almost nonexistent. Kristol may disagree about the odds, but the neocons have been wrong about everything in the past four years. Why should we believe them...