As Usual, It’s the Americans Who Are Responsible …
Greedy Americans? The BBC has an article, ” Norway’s future Arctic oil bonanza,” with an all-too common twist. Set out a story about economic demands vs. the environment: Both Norwegian…
Personal Musings
Too Sensitive?
Hateful Racism? Not the Way I Remember It I’d always understood that the phrase “tar baby” referred to a problem from which it was difficult or impossible to unstick yourself….
At Least We Don’t Have to Handle Scorpions
While helping young libertarians gathered together at Cambridge University to appreciate the tradition of liberty and to engage cognitive tools to understand and improve the world, I learned that Cambridge…
A Sad Story,… One of Many
Yoshiteru Nakagawa is one of the last victims of the Soviet tyranny to come to light. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union fed military prisoners of…
Business Seeks Gay Employees and Customers, While Governments Tend to Promote Hatred and Oppression
The Dollar Packs a Lot of Weight It can be really interesting to observe how people react when they reap the benefits and bear the costs of their own actions,…
Somehow This Seems a Bit Contrived…
I was interested to read the very breathless article from CNN titled ” U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says.” (Note that “modern world” means…
The Curious Puzzle of British Behavior
The British are famous for elevated conversation, politeness, and refinement and for drunken vomit-splattered rants, battering foreign soccer fans to death, and a coarseness that defies verbal description. This report…
SMS Spam! Ack!
We’ve all long battled email spam. Then there was blog comment spam. And today I got my first sms (text messaging) spam. (It was for discount meds.) I have a…
That’s the Last Time I Refer to a Stupid Person as “Thick”….
According to Dr. Judith Rapoport, “IQ is related to the dynamics of cortex maturation.”