From Don’t Tase Me, Bro!
Citizen surveillance system, costing $2 million and composed of 13 closed-circuit cameras turns citizenry in to “virtual deputies” surveiling the border for signs of suspicious activity and illegality. 21 thousand virtual deputies from all across the USA have already volunteered, sending over 1000 reports of suspicious activity on the border. The [...]
Marcia Angell lays some deadly-fucking-serious smack down on the medical profession in a New York Review of Books article:
The problems I’ve discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs [...]
I’d say it’s also generally indicative of corporate capitalism, but yeah, it really does peg the auto industry.
h/t cnd
I have to say I think this is a terrible poll question. From the LE:
I say that for two reasons:
1) It’s written in a biased fashion. It lends itself to a ‘yes’ answer as a result. A good poll question is worded in a neutral manner.
2) I don’t think it’s the place of a newspaper [...]
Shorter Hering: Science should be ignored when it’s not convenient.
I found this post while cleaning up my del.icio.us site. It’s not that old – from 2008 – but I hadn’t thought about it in some time. It’s frackin’ awesome:
Why I Teach:
If I had to put it in a sentence, I’d say –> I teach to break down the barriers between research and everyday life.
I [...]
This proposal from rok for dean, via Hilzoy, is tactically very sharp (and great theater), but will never, ever actually happen:
I’ve been wondering why such different standards are applied to financial executives and Detroit’s auto workers. Consider:
* The financial executives helped cause the present meltdown. Auto workers did not.
* The financial executives run their firms, [...]
From a Newsweek interview of a Somali pirate, a pair of answers that blew me away:
Now the European Union is sending an additional naval force. Are you worried about the increased naval presence?
We know the EU and NATO forces are coming, but that is not the solution. The solution is to restore peace in Somalia [...]
Oh, this is cool.
… slowly watching economists and well-educated lefty bloggers arrive at the conclusion that there’s somthing fundamentally unsound about capitalism, as all their pet theories/fixes are found wanting.
Sadly, I fear that many of them will be too skittish to entertain that as a possible conclusion.
Well?
Full credit to Jessica Hagy of indexed.
I’m taking this as the declarative statement on Obama’s stupid choice to have Warren deliver the invocation:
And then, a few minutes later, I heard this news about Dr. Rick Warren giving the invocation. My god, man, what are you thinking? Rick Warren alone undoes all the good of Elizabeth Alexander and Aretha Franklin combined. Yes, [...]
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An interesting comment from Drew Poe, a DC area activist and anarchist, recently showed up in my inbox:
“I am absolutely appalled that anarchists and other leftists are issuing calls to celebrate the inauguration.
I’ve got a message to every one of you anarchists and leftists out there who [...]
Someone talk me out of getting a Blackberry Storm (which requires a new 2-year contract with Verizon, who I despise).
Please.
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