Rep. Chris Murphy's 'Congress on Your Corner' Crowd - Courant.com

Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, drew a passionate crowd during one of his "Congress on Your Corner" sessions outside the Super Stop and Shop on Bushy Hill Road in Simsbury Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Police were called to move the crowd, which they estimated to be 120-150 people, from the front of the store to the side of the parking lot. There were no physical altercations.
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[comment] Murphy is one of those cowards who is trying to avoid speaking with constituents who may disagree with his lapdog support of statist governmenty policies like a government-run health care system, and cap and trade. He thought a one-on-one strategy would allow him to avoid having to deal with crowds of constituents who oppose his socialist agenda. But it back-fired and he got an earful

Britain's energy crisis: How long till the lights go out? | The Economist

Many of Britain’s neighbours may find this rather amusing. Britain, the only big west European country that could have joined the oil producers’ club OPEC, the country that used to lecture the world about energy liberalisation, is heading towards South African-style power cuts, with homes and factories plunged intermittently into third-world darkness.

By Doug Fine -- Climate Change, Survivalism and a Post-Oil World - washingtonpost.com

...What if cap-and-trade and plug-in hybrids don't get here in time?

Suddenly the end of globalization and other apocalyptic visions of the planet's near future, once the purview of Idaho survivalists, are primetime stories on CNN. Mainstream suburban friends of mine who used to say that my experiment in neo-rugged-individualism was radically subversive have abruptly changed their minds. Now they just say it's radically unfeasible. Yet everyone seems to sense that 69-cent plastic garden buckets might one day be difficult to come by.