The Pentagon today announced the deaths of 14 more U.S. troops, bringing the total acknowledged U.S. troop deaths to 3,493 -- just seven shy of yet another grim milestone...which will probably be surpassed by the time anyone reads this post. Has anyone else noticed that the river of American blood is continuing…
Would someone please explain the following to me? Bush and his Republican pals tell us that the reason they want to keep American troops in Iraq because they want to "fight the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight them over here," Where, exactly, is the logic in…
Whether the topic is Iraq, religion, discrimination, or even the scientific theory of evolution, you can likely find a use for John B. S. Haldane's description of the four stages of acceptance of ideas: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of…
I just laughed when I read this article about the new "all-you-can-eat" seats at Dodger Stadium. For one price, fans get all the hotdogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts and soda they can consume, and the fans are...sorry for the pun...eating it up. One fan interviewed for the article (and I don't imagine he's…
These stats are mind-boggling. The U.S. is not a good place to have access to a fast or reasonably priced Internet connection: The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in…