Two good-news stories in the area of compliance with humanitarian norms this week: First, the US military has revoked the deployment of the Active Denial System, a “less-than-lethal” weapon designed for crowd control, from the Afghan theater. The weapon works by vibrating the molecules below its targets’ skin, inducing the perception of being on fire. […]
Month: July 2010
Brief note before we continue: No part of this series should be thought of as an authoritative statement about pregnancy, parenthood, or anything else. Rather, it should be understood as expressive
Although we often focus on what divides us, it’s important to remember that the “we demand Swedish level of social services with Mississippi levels of taxation and we could get it if it wa
James Gammon, R.I.P. And since I forgot, allow me also to note the passing of Bob Probert.
Last month during the Greece/South Korea World Cup game, my eight-year-old son noticed the players speaking to one another in English, and asked me: “Mom, is English the official language of soccer?
It appears while I was away, my earlier post on shift breaks and human rights was regrettably interpreted by some local readers as a critique of Amherst Coffee, rather than of the absence of federal l
How can I expect to prevail in the face of this?
Friday will be the girl’s first birthday, and in honor of one year as a parent I thought that I would toss together a few things I wrote on the topic (some from way back) and try to make a serie
Evidently, the man no longer has a pulse, thanks to the new $200,000 continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD, image here) that Americans have generously purchased for the vasculopathic fo
As any Mets or Giants fans among our readership are aware, Phil Cuzzi put on an umpiring display of the kind I haven’t seen since the late Charlie Williams left the game. Well, actually, it was worse; it sort of combined Williams’ seemingly random strike zone and safe/out calls with Joe West’s even temper. The […]
…does not, in fact, necessarily create any national security benefits.
Tom Scocca’s blog doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention, but to do my little part to encourage the WaPo to take the 80 grand they were apparently paying Kaus and keep Scocca and give Lith