Truck Strike is ON(?)

I wrote about a potential truck strike, and 2 truckers have commented that the strike is on. Stay tuned and we'll see how it goes.

The Price of Sand

I've commented before about how costly it is to obtain oil from unconventional sources, such as oil sands (actually bitumen). The Globe and Mail, from Canada, offers this article that recounts the impact on water from the oil sands operation. This is not a pretty picture and the costs appear to be staggering. I have cut some excerpts, but the article is fairly quick reading, and jargon

Righteous Indignation?

So there I was, all ready to blog about the insanity of outsourcing passports, when lo and behold GovExec fires back with an article that takes The Washington Times to task. I confess that I have not had time to catch up on all the links, but this should be a reminder not to believe everything we read until we have checked it out ourselves.