SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:50 P.M. ET: 

MARCH OF MEDICINE – From London's Daily Mail:  "Night clubbers, beware. An Obamacare evangelist may be coming to a bar near you.  On a call outlining its strategy to get people to sign up for Obamacare over the summer, leading Obamacare advocacy group Enroll America said it will get more creative with its outreach tactics – including hitting up night clubs – now that only certain groups of people remain eligible to sign up for health coverage.  'If it's a health fair, we wanna have a table set up. If it's a long line at a night club, we want somebody walking up and down it, talking to folks while they're stuck there,' John Gilbert, National Field Director of Enroll America, told fellow Obamacare recruiters on the call.  The group will begin its new outreach operation in May."  If you're drunk when you sign up, do you still have to pay?

CHELSEA RISES – There seems to be more news about Chelsea these days than about Bill or Hillary.  From AP:  "Former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton are in Oxford, England, this weekend to attend the graduation ceremonies of their daughter, Chelsea.  Chelsea Clinton will receive her doctorate degree in international relations on Saturday from the prestigious British university. Her father was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford from 1968 to 1970."  International relations?  From a British university?  What did Chelsea take, Appeasement 201 or Anti-Americanism 304?  They're both popular, I hear.  Also, don't you have to spend some time at a university to get a doctorate?  I don't recall Chelsea spending any time overseas?  I'd love to have some details here.  Maybe she claimed she was home schooled by mama. 

THINK BIG – From Climate Depot:  "A solar panel array now adorns the roof of the White House and will produce an elephantine amount of solar power when the sun is actually shining: about 44 kilowatt hours of electricity a day.   If 44 kilowatts hours sounds like a lot of energy, it isn’t. The average home consumes about 30 kilowatt hours (kWh) of power each day. The average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,837 kWh according to the EIA for 2012 or 30 kWh per day average.
Slightly less than the 44 kilowatt hours per day that will be produced by the new solar panels adorning the White House. According to data from TradeWind Energy, one 100-watt light bulb running for 20 hours will use two kilowatt-hours of electricity (100 watts x 20 hours = 2,000 watt-hours = 2 kWh).  In other words, the White House installed enough solar panels to power twenty-two 100-watt light bulbs for 20 hours each day. And if you’ve ever been inside the White House, or seen it from a distance, you’ll notice it’s lit up like a klieg light."  I only trust solar power on my little Casio calculator.  Eight bucks.

May 10,  2014