I am ashamed at how hard I laughed at this

Please See Wonkette’s analysis of Pres. Barack Obama’s Rutgers University commencement speech. I mean, you can watch it, or you can read the transcript, but I highly recommend this version, the “I Don’t Have Two Shits To Give” version.

Why all the social unrest?

Because we, through very bad public policy and a slavish devotion to create low-resource neighborhoods, made it so. Read this from Paul A. Jawgorsky, professor of public policy at Rutgers University. Boiled down The number of people living in high-poverty ghettos, barrios, and slums has nearly doubled since 2000, rising from 7.2 million to 13.8 …

How about covering parking lots with solar panels?

The Washington Post carried this story late last week, “The best idea in a long time: Covering parking lots with solar panels.” If, as the story says, 35-50 percent of American cities’ surface is parking lots, that’s a lot of solar panels. An example of the power that could be generated? …one vast solar carport …