Times Online has a nice little piece about the silliness associated with "green" power. A little black duck living in Carmarthen Bay will be quackers with fear over the Government?s energy White Paper. Although, the Cabinet wisely refused to commit itself yesterday to the much-hyped target of generating a fifth of our energy by 2020 from so-called ?renewables?, like waves and wind, it still presented a vision of our little island covered by giant wind-farms. But, the unpalatable truth about most ?renewables? is that they are no more ?green? than coal, oil, gas, or nuclear, which at least have the merit of working.

The Weekly James Because the question is not whether there will be more attacks. There will be. The question is whether we can survive them and still maintain an open society. What good is it to have Osama trapped in a basement somewhere if, by just whispering a few threats on Al Jazeera TV, he can trap us in self-sealed rooms?

No good at all, which is why the only survival purchase I've made since Code Orange is a new set of Ben Hogan Apex irons, and why my all-American survival kit would include: a movie guide, a concert schedule, Rollerblades, a bicycle ? plus a reminder to attend your local PTA meetings, Little League games, neighborhood block parties and your book club and to get plenty of tickets for your favorite sports team.


I am not going to buy a new set of clubs, but I will be hitting a bunch of golf balls as soon as the snow clears and i can find the ones I already hit.