Here's yet another incarnation of Brownie: Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. As indicated in this Salon.com article writer Katharine Mieszkowski wrote that Peters recently complained that the Minnesota bridge collapsed because frivolous things like bike paths are siphoning too much of the transportation budget. On PBS's NewsHour, Peter's argued that projects like…
The White House is fond of reminding us that the U.S. is not fighting alone in Iraq, but that we are part of a "coalition." Marty Kaplan has this to say about that the president's most recent affirmation that there is a 37 nation coaltion: Moldova is in (12 troops),…
This set of charts is shocking. It's part of a website entitled "Too Much." Here's an excerpt from the "About" page: Each and every week, Too Much explores excess and inequality, in the United States and throughout the world. We cover a wide swatch of economic and political territory,…
You might think I’m being facetious, but I’m dead serious. Let's select one day per year to remind people to regularly back up their computer data. I am utterly completely and bewilderedly tired of hearing people tell me “I lost all my data, songs and photos because my computer hard drive…
The current edition of Science (September 7, 2007- articles available only to subscribers online) contains a short article entitled "The Art of Virtual Persuasion." The author notes a wide variety of studies that have shown that "people who mimic the gestures or speech of others are often perceived by those…