Colin Powell on nuclear weapons:Via Wonk Room, this is the introduction to Nuclear Tipping Point, a film put together by the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Month: January 2010
You will not believe this 1934 New Yorker cartoon my friend Adam Jones dug up. What a difference a few decades makes. Jones writes about mass killing and has one.
What if Ayn Rand had been 6'10" with a pretty good jumpshot?Dear Haitians -First of all, kudos on developing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Your commitment to human.
Didn't last long, did it?
Union-busting, health care reform-opposing, global-warming denying John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, has come up with a super idea for cutting his health insurance costs: giving his employees extra discounts.
Later this year, state parties will get together to revisit the Statute for the International Criminal Court. Definitely on the agenda is clarifying the crime of aggression, which was left.
For obvious reasons, including the one Rob and Dave mention below, pretty much uniformly negative. If health care reform tanks, the possibility that Obama "could be seen as a failed.
There's a passage from Henry Morgenthau's diaries that has been a staple of right-wing New Deal denialism over the years. In it, FDR's Treasury secretary describes a meeting with the.
Attackerman:Everyone in Washington who studies the Pentagon budget quickly finds gobs and gobs of wasteful spending. Not some people. Not dirty hippies. Every. Single. Defense. Analyst. If I was so inclined, I could spend my days doing nothing but attending conferences on the latest defense...
At least until Jack Z arrived in Seattle, I always figured that God was on Billy Beane's side.
Yes, Imogen is "reading" The Economist. I think she just likes it for the pictures. But it's a start.