I’ve been on vacation this past week, although at times it’s been hard to tell. Mostly it’s been some running around punctuated by periods of near vegetative stupor. That, and we’ve watched a whole lot of NCIS re-runs. Sunday, the Head Rat and I joined my folks at the Neal Reunion and then visited cemeteries [...]
Also tagged congress, Economics, humor, Nanny State, numbers, Obama, Politics, wordsmithing3 wildly different links today: Yale has recordings of some of its classes posted online. Free. An interesting selection, if you’re interested. I’m watching the one on Game Theory. (via Carpe Diem) An bit about an American sniper who set a record for the longest kill shot (8,120 feet as measured by GPS). Twice!. Third, [...]
Also tagged Guns, humor7 tabs open in my browser. I’m not going to get around to writing about any of them, so here they are. A post on how Apple screws over developers who want to do apps for the iPhone. Tim Lee’s take on the piece is that top-down organizations will always think they are expending extraordinary [...]
Also tagged Computers, Economics, health care, humor, ObamaThere have been some interesting bits of speculation at the Gormogons about a number of odd diplomatic occurrences related to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Israel’s potential responses, seemingly inexplicable American foreign policy activities that may or may not be related, etc. While I’m not sure about the conclusion, this article provides some food for thought [...]
Also taggedThere’s an excellent article over at the Gormogons that answers the question of why, if Obama is popular in other parts of the world, do those other parts of the world still hate America? Short version: The Fallacy of Foreign Policy Egocentrism. Well worth a read.
Also tagged ObamaFrom the Obama White House: Top White House adviser David Axelrod on Monday said that President Obama’s trips to Europe, Turkey and Latin America in the last three weeks have made anti-American sentiment uncool and “created a new receptivity” to U.S. interests. “What’s happened is anti-Americanism isn’t cool anymore,” Mr. Axelrod said, speaking to an [...]
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