Random links
- Look who parks their cash at Bain
- "Democrats convened in Charlotte, NC, will double down on their claim that Bain Capital is really the Bain crime family. They will accuse Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Bain’s other “greedy” co-founders of stealing their winnings, evading taxes and lighting cigars with $100 bills on their yachts. But Bain’s private-equity executives have enriched dozens of organizations and millions of individuals in the Democratic base — including some who scream most loudly for President Obama’s re-election." More at NewsBusters.
- University Vindicates Mark Regnerus
- I mentioned not being a fan of Regnerus's research, but also that I considered those charging him with academic misconduct to be hypocrites. In any case it seems that the investigation is over with and Regnerus has now been cleared of academic misconduct.
- Saving a Little More Energy With Exit Signs
- "... those ubiquitous red or green illuminated signs that direct our escape from a building should the need arise? They can’t use very much energy, can they? Each one uses relatively little electricity, but they are on all the time. And we have a lot of them in our schools, factories, and office buildings. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that there are more than 100 million exit signs in use today in the U.S., consuming 30–35 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually. That’s the output of five or six 1,000 MW power plants, and it costs us $2-3 billion per year. Individual buildings may have thousands of exit signs in operation."
- Lies the Debunkers Told Me: How Bad History Books Win Us Over
- "Earlier this month, George Mason University's History News Network asked readers to vote for the least credible history book in print. The top pick was David Barton's right-wing reimagining of our third president, Jefferson's Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson. But just nine votes behind was the late Howard Zinn's left-wing epic, A People's History of the United States. Bad history, it turns out, transcends political divides. If these books seem an unlikely pair, they also have a good deal in common..."