Rethink Afghanistan: How Long is Now?
Even as the war in Afghanistan becomes America's Longest War, there is an end in sight.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month June 2010
Major vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Upgrade to beta now
From Adobe A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating…
Meanwhile, the vampire squid continues its slithery ways
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has issued a subpoena to Goldman for failure to comply with requests for documents. The commission remarked of Goldman that, “Failure to comply with a Commission request is viewed with the utmost seriousness, as the…
Former Union Carbide employees get a mere 2 years for Bhopal disaster
Campaign groups representing survivors of the Bhopal disaster expressed outrage today at the “insulting” sentences given to seven men for their roles in the tragedy. The accused, several of them now in their 70s, were convicted of criminal negligence and…
Bill Gates: Grid-scale renewable energy is decades away. Nuclear is an option
Treehugger On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS, Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and…