Energy
(Thanks to Lonnie R. for this one)

A commencement address given in Utah, offers a great perspective on the future of US energy, as well as some environmental insight.  From the article.....

Well, the doomsters of the 1970s turned out to be remarkably wrong. My bet is that today‟s doomsters will be proven wrong. Over the past 39 years mankind has consumed nearly twice the world‟s known oil reserves in 1970 – and today proven oil reserves are nearly double what they were before we started. The story with natural gas is even better – here and around the world enormous amounts of natural gas have been found. More will be found. And guess what? The 30-year cooling trend that led to the global cooling scare in the mid-70s abruptly ended in the late 70s, replaced by a 20-year warming trend that peaked in 1998.

Please read the whole article.


Chicago Politics

Now that Blagojevich is out of office, Illinois politicians were starting to breathe a little easier..........until yesterday.  Chicago Alderman Ike Carothers was indicted for taking bribes from a developer for assistance on zoning issues.  But even this news is not what's causing elevated blood pressure in the Windy City.  

It's today's revelation -  Ald. Issac Carothers wore a wire for the last year.

In the past 30 years, 36 Chicago alderman have been convicted for crimes related to their political position.
There are currently 50 alderman in Chicago.  As of this morning, a few of them might be starting to sweat.