Homeless at unoccupied Occupy DC | Campaign 2012

Conditions were miserable; 40 degrees, dark, windy, muddy, steady rain. The weather, predicted to deteriorate even more later, was enough to test the resolve of the most dedicated anti-capitalist.

The small park is filled with tents. At times there have seemed more tents than protesters, and indeed, a friend who has kept a close eye on Occupy DC suggested to me that many of the tents -- which convey the impression of a substantial, permanent protest -- are actually unoccupied. That's hard to prove, short of barging into randomly-selected tents. But even among the tents that are in use -- and I saw a total of four early-risers in the park Saturday morning -- there is the question of how many Occupy DC protesters are actually homeless people who have come to McPherson Square for shelter, a hot meal, and companionship.

Chris Huhne is not merely ignorant but positively dangerous - Telegraph

This confirmation of Huhne’s technical illiteracy, however, pales beside his suggestion earlier this month that, if motorway speed limits are raised to 80mph, it should only be for electric cars. (One might have thought Huhne would be wiser to steer away from any discussion of speed limits.)

The only electric model capable of such speeds, for a very short time before its batteries need recharging for several hours, is the Tesla, which retails at £87,000. Last quarter, electric car sales in Britain, despite a Government subsidy of £5,000 each, totalled 309. At this rate, to replace the UK’s existing car fleet, as Huhne wishes, would take nearly 23,000 years. And since the minister still hasn’t grasped that most of the electricity needed to charge their batteries comes from fossil fuels anyway, the savings in CO2 emissions, with transmission losses, would be zero. This man is not merely technically ignorant, he is positively dangerous.

Slate: Mitt Romney Flip Flops on Climate Change, Global Warming

Maybe Romney’s made his smartest flip flop yet.