Sometimes I have only questions, and few answers. I feel that way about Iraq. I have not heard any really good proposals for what to do now in Iraq. Maybe it is because I start with the belief that we caused this problem by our war-mongering. I find it hard…
Did you see Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's response to the President's State of the Union address last night? Here's the text. The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two…
Never try to do such a foolish thing. It could never work. It just makes things worse. War is a chainsaw. Reconstituting social structures is akin to brain surgery. So here's a question: In what major city were the following photos taken? (These photos were sent to me by an American friend who once lived…
Well . . . I had heard about having other people's servers get overwhelmed by Digg.com, but it hadn't before happened to us. Until today. Last night, I had put up a post about a psychology site that let's you "average" faces, resulting in incredible attractive (mathematically generated) faces of…
Are people concerned about global warming now? Yes, indeed. Even crowds of people in traditionally conservative Idaho. Check out this piece by Melinda Henneberger on Huffpo.