This blog combined with my iPhone will allow me to contribute 'spare CPU cycles' from my mind to the the global mind, the Internet. (for example, when waiting for the subway)
While we're bitching about high gas prices, the people of the Third World are going hungry, thanks to a confluence of factors including soaring oil prices, U.S. subsidies to corn farmers for ethanol, and global warming.
A global food shortage, not to mention an energy crisis, was forecast years ago, vis-รก-vis Peak Oil. In case you haven't heard, there is a finite amount of the black stuff in the earth, and we've already burned up half of it. The first half was easy to get; the last half is a lot trickier. And our whole civilization is built upon the availability of cheap oil.
"I believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."