Some seem to think Bush is to blame, JSB Morse takes another aproach.

May 20, 2004

This summer, you’ll hear a lot about record highs for gasoline prices and you’ll also hear a lot of complaining. Already there have been Internet campaigns to get everyone to avoid buying gasoline on one day so as to make the greedy oil companies “lose 5 billion dollars.” Supposedly, the oil companies would not get the $5 Billion that we Americans spend on gas a day (this figure is ludicrous), but what’s stopping them from making that up when more than an average number of consumers buy gas the next day? This horribly irrational plan is typical of the type of thinking that goes along with furious gas consumers who don’t see any good reason as to why the prices are going up. continued...

-JSB Morse

Not Quite Everything

When I picked up this book, I thought the "everything" in "nearly everything" was everything. In the introduction, the author makes it seem that way too. He fails to mention (anywhere in the book) that his perception of "everything" is just the natural sciences. It is a fun, engaging, acceptably thorough survey of the way mankind first discovered and now views the natural sciences, and for that, it is worth notice. But to say that it is a take on everything is not only wrong, but arrogant and blind.continue...