The LA Times exposes some of the craziness that is going on with auto financing these days in New cars that are fully loaded — with debt When Jennifer and Bobby Post traded in their 2001 Chevy Suburban last year for a shiny new Ford F-350 turbo diesel with an extended cab, it seemed like …
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Pining for a lost environment
Wired has a really interesting story called Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds People are feeling displaced. They’re suffering symptoms eerily similar to those of indigenous populations that are forcibly removed from their traditional homelands. But nobody is being relocated; they haven’t moved anywhere. It’s just that …
RIAA gets even more asinine
While suing a guy for illegal downloads, they also are trying to push that the CD’s he owns and ripped to MP3 for personal use are also illegal: In legal documents in its federal case against a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry …
Pentecostals in Latin America
The CS Monitor has a great 3 part series on the explosive growth of the Pentecostal movement in Latin America. The first two parts, dealing mostly with Guatemala and Brazil are posted and have been quite interesting. I’m looking forward to the third. As church lights dim across the US and Europe, Christian houses of …
Bailouts
This makes my blood boil: Bush to outline 5-year rate freeze plan “…sources, who are familiar with details of the trade group’s pitch, said the plan envisions covering subprime loans taken out between January 1, 2005, through the end of this past July, with rates that are due to reset over the coming 2-1/2 years. …