While some politicians and environmentalists believe that "biofuels" like corn ethanol could lower America's dependence on foreign oil, others argue that ethanol actually costs energy to produce and has disastrous effects on food production. As Iowa farmers use more land for corn and less for other crops like soybeans, the prices for those crops increase around the world. To meet the growing demand, other countries cut down their own forests to plant soybeans, releasing carbon dioxide into the air and potentially harming the environment. Read More...
JUSTIN ROILAND, the co-creator of Adult Swim’s smash hit “Rick and Morty,” told Comic Riffs this summer, only partly in jest, that while writing the show, he has feared angering its millions of hardcore fans.
Perhaps McDonald’s should take the cue, because on Saturday, the burger chain managed to do just that.
In April, Roiland expressed his nostalgic love for McDonald’s limited Szechuan sauce — a promotional tie-in during the 1998 release of Disney’s “Mulan” — by incorporating it into a “Rick and Morty” plotline. Read More...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records should not be reversed because of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity for reasons including a wealth of incriminating evidence, prosecutors said in a court filing made public Thursday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision assigning presidents broad immunity for actions involving formal duties does not have any bearing on the May jury verdict that found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts for illegally trying to conceal the nature of a hush money payment to an adult-film actress shortly before the 2016 election. Read More...