4-minute short from director Robert Greenwald about war profiteering. A military interrogator has an epiphany at about one minute into the short - at least someone got it.
Every time they talk about cost plus and outsourcing interrogation I can’t help but thing of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Soon the […]
BoingBoing links to reports of a Kurdish girl stoned to death because she had sex with a Sunni muslim boy.
In a short mobile video clip which appears to have been taken by locals at seen of the murder, the girl is seen being ambushed on her way home by a group […]
Last night I finished my re-read of Vernor Vinge’s wonderful A Deepness in the Sky, and lucky dog that I am, I get to start the day with a Vernor Vinge interview. Vinge is maybe the greatest science fiction author working today, and the single writer I’ve read capable of putting libertarianism/anarchy in a […]
Brazilian president Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has concluded that saving lives is more important than the overabused patent system.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took steps Friday to let Brazil buy or produce an inexpensive generic version of an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co. despite the U.S. drug […]
Have something bad to say about someone? Then you’re a terrorist! Seems that the current Pope is taking a page out of George W. Bush, and taking it to levels only possible to religious fanatics.
“The Pope says he doesn’t believe in evolution. I agree, in fact the church […]
Good interview with Vernon Smith on Asperger’s Syndrome.
Via Marginal Revolution.