When Jonathan Frieman of San Rafael, Calif., was pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane, he argued to the officer that, actually, he did have a passenger. He waved his corporation papers at the officer, … saying that corporations are people under California law.[…]
A carpool lane is two or more persons per vehicle, he said. The definition of person in California’s Vehicle Code is “natural person or corporation.”
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This is the headline of an article on CNN:
“Damon’s film ‘Promised Land’ overlooks fracking’s boon to U.S.”
The boon of global climate change, I guess. The boon of flammable tap water. All that, and cheap gas.
Are we lucky, or what?
Like I said before, the only thing worse than running out of oil is not running out of oil.
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