Month February 2007

Poverty: Asking the hard questions

During my summer trip to India, I learned that children are starving in Bangladesh. Why? An American boycott of products made with child labor put them out of work. Now they have no way to support themselves. If children in…

The Right Stuff?

Anyone who drives 900 miles nonstop wearing a diaper so she doesn’t have to stop to pee was, in my estimation, wired to the eyeballs on speed. The other possibility – that she did the whole thing without ingesting any…

Apple says, let’s make music DRM-free

Steve Jobs now favors having online music available with no copyright protection and is urging record companies to support this. This could be the the bginning of the end for DRM and all the other noxious protection schemes that don’t…

Trading carbon credits

Connecticut has a pioneering plan to cut greenhouse gases by creating a cap on carbon emissions that decreases each year, then creating a market to buy and sell them. The theory is that the more emissions a power plant makes,…