Month January 2006

Class rule

Partying at Davos In America, as in most places, the party of Davos is bipartisan. It includes Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney, Robert Rubin and Don Rumsfeld, Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice. (George Bush is also a member, but he…

The non-filibuster

The liberal blogosphere did their absolute best over the weekend, launching a tsumani of faxes, emails, and phone calls to senator’s offices pleading with them to stop Alito. They got their answer yesterday. Alito will be confirmed with barely a…

Blowback

Via DJ Mitchell “It seemed to me then and even more so as I write two years later that we, Americans, have difficulty envisioning ourselves embroiled in a cycle of violence. The acts of 9/11 were viewed as unwarranted provocation…

Global warming soon irreversible

Earth’s average temperature has risen nearly one degree Fahrenheit over the past 30 years, and another increase of about four degrees over the next century would “imply changes that constitute practically a different planet,” said James Hansen, who directs NASA’s…

NSA System error

The NSA has spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to kick-start a program, intended to help protect the United States against terrorism, that many experts say was doomed from the start. I’m a database programmer, and…