Change the Margins is a group trying to get you (and companies, and governments, and software manufacturers) to use smaller margins on your documents. Why? Because it’s an incredibly simple way to save on paper — a big environmental win.

According to a study done by the Penn State Green Destiny Council, reducing margins to .75” on all sides results in a total reduction of paper by 4.75%…

In 2003, the U.S. consumed approx. 5.4 million tons of office paper. If everyone used Efficient Margins, every year we would save 6,156,000 trees…

-Total energy: 9,840,368 million British thermal units (Btus), which is enough to provide power to 108,136 homes

-Greenhouse gas emissions: 1,459,535,366 pounds, which is the equivalent of CO2 emissions from 132,528 cars

-Solid waste: 584,396,539 lbs, which is the equivalent of 20,871 fully loaded garbage trucks

-Wastewater: 4.8 billion gallons, which is enough to fill 7,408 Olympic-sized swimming pools

Suddenly, one little margin change feels like it has a lot more impact!

RatTube » Fox News Gets Owned by Pro-Wright Priest

My new hero.

Thanks to Aaron for the link.

You may not be aware of this, but John McCain is old.

This short video has more details.

The Democratic Party is closer than it’s ever been to a political nightmare—a deadlocked convention. Though the odds of its actually happening are still remote, the idea is so rich with dramatic possibility that we asked Lawrence O’Donnell Jr., former West Wing writer-producer, to play out a scenario in movie-treatment form. The premise is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton arrive in Denver, neither having sufficient delegates to gain the nomination nor a decisive majority in the popular vote.

Read on.

CNN reports: “McCain shares memories of his high school days”.

Sen. John McCain tried to connect with voters on a personal level Tuesday by visiting his high school and sharing memories of what he called some of his happiest years.

“We were still smarting from the French and Indian War,” said McCain. “And the fur trade in Lower Canada had all dried up. So it was important for me to get an education, so maybe I could make a living for myself out in the Northwest Territories.”

Still, he remembered some good times from his youth. “I tied an onion to my belt,” McCain added, “which was the style at the time.”

Okay, I might have made some of that up.