Just in case I have to retreat from the Reality-Based Community into absurdity, the new Stitch’s Great Escape attraction opens Nov. 16 in Disney World. A cow-orker is taking vacation time then specifically for this very event. When we went to Dizzy Whirled and did the Alien Encounter (which has been re-worked with a Stitch theme) it was a pretty good freak-out, and we bought funny pictures in the gift shop. Could be much, much more fun to have Stitch running around in the dark breathing down our necks…
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my husband David and I had a chance to test-drive a Ford Escape Hybrid today – meaning a partly gas-powered, partly electric-powered vehicle (a decent sized SUV) that gets great gas mileage and is touted as environmentally friendly. The technology behind it is interesting, innovative, and impressive from my point of view, since it’s designed to be fully integrated and automatic. There is no maintenance required on the battery pack and it never need be recharged (in fact, it can’t be recharged the way it’s designed) because it is continuously recharged by either the generator motor or by “regenerative braking.”…
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The Nation publishes 100 Facts and 1 Opinion with a handy link to a PDF file to be downloaded and distributed as necessary. Very inconvenient, these facts. Likely to bring Bushco to its knees in the end. If after reading these 100 facts, which each have links to news stories backing them up, anyone still undecided will never decide.