See Geoff Forden on the typical damage profile of a modern torpedo, and how that relates to Cheonan.
Month: April 2010
Grover floats an idea: Now assuming that the incident was the product of centralized decision making rather than an unintended one ordered lower down the food chain (something I discussed.
Not content, apparently, with commemorating people willing to kill hundreds of thousands in defense of slavery, Republican governors have now embraced gunpowder chic by asking their supporters to "Remember November.".
This from a new report described in the Army Times: Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some type of treatment from the Veterans Affairs Department. Seven percent of the attempts are successful,...
Matt beat me to it, but while I agree with 90% of what she says I think that Dahlia's framing of the debate in this article concedes way too much.
I don't know which version of the video below has the worse message for young adults: this one, in which pop artist Kesha promotes binge drinking and capricious, careless, drunken sex: Or this parody, in which Barely Political promotes the promotion of binge drinking and...
Noah Shachtman notices what I noticed two weeks ago: The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The.
I just can't respect anyone who could be entertained by watching the NFL Draft. Announcer:"We now return you to exciting 15th round action at the Canadian Football League Draft." Analyst:.
Strangely, when we hear claims that the Obama administration coddles enemies and scorns friends they never refer to concerns like this: Fresh from signing a strategic nuclear arms deal with Russia, the United States is parrying a push by NATO allies to withdraw its aging...
Amber asks "how anyone could have thought this law was going to get upheld," and compares it to the also-voided Communications Decency Act. I think the answer can be seen.
Seems pretty intuitive: The way you gain people's trust is to earn it over time by repeatedly proving that you deserve it. That, or grow a beard. A recent study.