Day October 4, 2007

Parts of the Left was oddly silent after Ahmadinejad’s speech. That gays are viciously persecuted in Iran is a given. Yet some Lefties who defend gay rights here seemed mute about the obvious homophobia in his speech (as well as…

The Karen, Shan and other ethnic groups survive in Burma in opposition to the government simply and solely because they have enough weaponry to back the army off. Nonviolence is a powerful and amazing tactic. But it assumes the government…

From John Robb, echoing Robert Pelton Young’s thoughts on Blackwater. Another example of dysfunction in our societal discussion about the future of security: rather than an informed/constructive debate on the future of private military contractors in warfare (a big topic…

You probably didn’t even know you needed a robotic self healing chair or wanted to converse with autonomous light air vessels, but watch out for the attack of the robotic helicopter.