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Waldorf’s Week-in-Review

December 6th, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

For the week of November 30th, 2008. Not to be confused with Waldorf’s Weekly World News. . .

(+ +) To PROGRESS! A company has adopted a new technology enabling them to crank out photovoltaic cells cheaper and faster, putting them on track to be competitive with fossil-fuels for generating electricity by 2010. 2010? That’s 13 months away at the earliest!

(+ + +) Another reason to move to Hawaii, as if the lure of fresh tropical fruit, whales aplenty, and fantastically gorgeous weather weren’t enough. (I’d brave tsunami’s and volcanic eruptions and dengue fever for that!) Hawaii has been selected as a spot to test out electric cars and recharging stations. I say hell yes to that – get the petrol off the islands! Sure, to recharge the batteries the cars are plugged into a grid fueled by coal or oil, but this is surely a positive step!

(+ +) To PROGRESS! Walter Fiers is working on a universal flu vaccine that targets a specific protein that remains unchanged no matter the mutant variant of the virus. Let’s do this. If anything, I fear Stephen King’s vision coming true, mainly because the three options he lays out, a) Las Vegas, b) Colorado, or c) gagging on your own snot while infected with Captain Tripps, are not appealing in the least. Why, yes, I would be a “germophobe,” if the fear wasn’t irrational.

(EVEN) To the Dept. of Justice. It’s nice to see that these schmoes are not above the law. However, while you’re criminalizing these employees of Blackwater USA, why not take a look into the policies of Blackwater, as well as other “contractors” paid for “security” operations by the US government?

I’ve been trying to keep my week-in-review as positive as possible — there is a reason I didn’t discuss the economy, any bailouts, Bush, etc. . .

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