Charles Manson is now 77 years old and is coming up for parole once again. This is one person who deserves to never walk among the general population again and I do believe that if he was released that a riot would break out like we have never seen the likes of before anywhere. But no one ever knows what a parole board will decide on these days, we can only pray.

I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how overpopulation is one of the largest issues that the world needs to address if we want to curb some of the environmental problems.  The supply and demand imbalance is largely contributing to the skyrocketing food and energy prices.

One of the things that I found interesting about this article was the proposition that the most successful way to control overpopulation is to put women in control of their own procreation.  In countries where women have access to birth control, the birth rate drops.  I imagine that’s very true, common sense would dictate that most women would not want to have a lot of children – children are a lot of work, and are expensive to care for! 

I was reading on the BBC website that a man from Milwaukee WIsconsin was been arrested for shooting his lawn mower with a sawed off shotgun.  He told police “it’s my lawnmower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want.”  He has been charged with disorderly conduct and illegal possession of a sawn off shotgun.

I’m no mechanical expert, but I don’t think shooting a lawn mower will “fix” whatever was wrong with it!  The story does not give a reason for the shooting, so I don’t know if he was mad that the mower wouldn’t run properly, or if he was simply mad that he had to mow the lawn and decided that if he killed the mower then he wouldn’t have to mow the lawn.

Oh, the world is full of nut cases!

What is up with the bad attitude at the half-time show miss flip off the world? Who were you flipping off, and why? Weren’t you getting paid enough money to sing your song and prance your half naked body across the stage? Didn’t you care that children might be watching? Don’t you care that you are supposed to be a positive role model? Do you want all of the kids that watched you flip off the world to flip off people at school or at home and get in trouble for imitating something you did?

You should grow up and apologize. And then you should return all of the money you were paid for the show.

A friend of mine sent me a link to a blog that was talking about how someone has found a way to burn salt water, and that the possibility was there to further develop that to actually be able to run cars with that technology.

So I was just googling “fuel from salt water” and was reading the different links about it.

From what I can tell, right now it takes more energy to create the fuel than the fuel itself would generate, which makes it impractical.  Perhaps someone can refine the process, but I also read that when the salt water DOES burn, it releases a deadly form of chlorine gas, which probably would not be a good thing!

So, I think that quite a bit of “tweaking” needs to be done for that technology to hit the mainstream use of running our cars on saltwater!