Clever new milk packaging.
Call me a huge dork, but I’m really excited about this new milk jug design taken up by Wal-Mart and Costco. They’re rectangular, allowing them to be packed far more tightly in shipment, use less packaging, and have a greatly reduced overall environmental impact. This is precisely the sort of small manufacturing modification that big [...]
Goode gets caught telling a tall China oil-drilling tale.
In order to fulfill his twice-annual quota of saying something totally nuts, Rep. Virgil Goode informed a WCHV radio host last week that China is drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba. I wish I knew what Goode was thinking when he says such foolish things. He’s doing no favors for himself, his district, [...]
Dominion won’t help you kick the habit.
Dominion has gotten the OK from the State Corporation Commission to raise electrical rates by 18%, effective immediately. The SCC agreed with Dominion’s assertion that they were simply trying to cover the increased costs of fuel, and I don’t know of any reason to doubt that’s so. (Dominion had to ask permission because they’re regulated [...]
C’ville adding downtown WiFi.
Charlottesville blanketing downtown with WiFi, still no WiFi in Charlottesville. Sorry, force of habit.
White House refuses to open EPA e-mail.
Remember last year’s SCOTUS ruling that the EPA had to figure out if CO2 was a danger to human health? Well, the EPA complied with that, as they were obliged to, and in December they issued a report to the White House ruling that, yes, greenhouse gases are pollutants, and as such they’ve got to [...]
Bob Marshall’s faux transportation bills.
Del. Bob Marshall is just taking his annual torrent of useless, not-a-chance-in-hell bills and refiling them with vague references to transportation as a part of this special transportation session of the General Assembly. His bill to consolidate the Virginia Museum of Natural History and the Science Museum of Virginia didn’t even get out of [...]
RTD calls out Republicans on VDOT audit demands.
Even the conservative Richmond Times Dispatch editors agree: Republicans’ call for an audit of VDOT is bullshit.* There have been eight performance audits of VDOT in the past seven years. The call for another one is, in the words of the RTD, a “dodge,” an “excuse for sloth” with which “the voters should not be [...]
A lone vulture circles over the RPV.
It was just a month ago that Del. Jeff Frederick, eager to get those last few votes in his race for chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, made a bold promise not to run for re-election to his seat if elected chairman. Today Frederick started backing away from that promise. At the time, he [...]
“We’ve squandered your money. We can have mor plz?”
Del. Jeff Frederick, the new chair of the RPV, sent out a fundraising plea yesterday morning:
Just a few weeks ago, we began our efforts to provide bold, new leadership to the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV).
Yet, it hasn’t been easy.
RPV ran deficits in April, May, and now in June, and recent fundraisers have actually lost [...]
Your wish is JLARC’s command.
Bob McDonnell proposes dealing with the transportation crisis via an audit of VDOT. The only problem? JLARC just did that, but apparently nobody saw the need to mention it to Bob McDonnell. That’s embarrassing.
Auditing VDOT to find billions for dollars in new roads would be like rifling through my couch cushions to find the money [...]
Same-sex couple wed in Norfolk.
Did you notice your marriage get a little weaker on March 24? Think back. Didn’t you realize, suddenly, that your significant other isn’t looking so good these days? That maybe your love had suddenly faded a little? That was, it seems, a disturbance in the force:
The couple walked into a Norfolk, Virginia courthouse on a [...]
Morgan Griffith joins Albo’s law firm.
Well, ain’t this interesting?
H. Morgan Griffith has joined the law firm Albo & Oblon, L.L.P. as a Partner. He will be Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s new Roanoke/Salem office. Initially, he will be one of two lawyers at that office. He will continue his practice of criminal and civil litigation.
That’s from a press release put out [...]
“Netroots Rising” website.
Lowell Feld has a website up for “Netroots Rising,” his new book about the role that the internet-using political grassroots are affecting campaign politics. Both the Kaine/Kilgore and the Webb/Allen races appear to be a particular focus of the book, due out a week from today.
Republicans are losing evangelical Christians.
Republicans are losing evangelical Christians, thanks to the issues of climate, social justice, and Iraq. They’ve lost 15% of white evangelicals aged 18-29 since 2006. Without “compassionate,” it’s just conservatism.
Ingraham spam, courtesy of the RPV.
My subscription to the RPV’s mailing list has now yielded a subscription to a movement to get that harpy Laura Ingraham back on the air, in addition to my prior membership on John Hager’s mailing list. Giving my e-mail address to the RPV is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s a good thing I [...]
The newly-rendered heavosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
I try to avoid posts about widely-linked YouTube videos, but “Requiem for a Day Off” is just too brilliant for me to resist. It’s the music from “Requiem for a Dream” over cleverly-edited footage of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” making the movie appear to be an epic tragedy. (An editing style that, when employed by [...]
No-bid oil contracts in Iraq? Whhhhhaaaaaa???
Remember those crazy lefties who said that President Bush and Vice President Cheney — oilmen both — only invaded Iraq so that American oil companies could take over Iraq’s oil fields via no-bid contracts? Hey — whaddya know? — they were right. Let’s all practice our surprised faces.
Will nobody take the Gilmore Challenge?
Not one person can provide documented evidence that Jim Gilmore left the state’s government in good financial shape? It’s been three days, and nobody has even tried to support this oft-repeated claim. Is Gilmore so unpopular that nobody wants to defend him on this anymore? Or does it turn out that the story just isn’t [...]
Ice on Mars!!ELEVEN!!!
Ice on Mars. Or, at least, something frozen and white found underground that melted when exposed to the sun. If this is, as it appears to be, H2O, then there has got to be life on Mars.
The snowballing of gay rights.
Opponents of gay marriage are keeping their powder dry after California’s legalization this week. Why? Well, because it’s tough to be angry at scenes like these weddings. Smiles, laughter, flowers…these people are being captured on the happiest day of their lives, and their joy is absolutely infectious. After all, some of these people have been [...]
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