Been meaning to post this for a while. On the care tags of some of the fine goods produced by Tom Bihn (ed: I have no idea of the quality of the products one way or the other): The bottom highlighted portion, “Nous sommes desoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nous n’avons pas vote […]

Kurt Vonnegut has a wickedly excellent and stupendous and outstanding article about America and Oil, of all things. Although really it’s about everything. What can I say? It’s outstanding. I’d quote the whole thing, just to get you to read it, but that probably wouldn’t work anyway, so I’m just going to ask you nicely. […]

In an interesting contrast, an article in the Guardian says US brands are hurting abroad, and had better watch out, while the NYT says, wow, incredible! despite war and abuse, America’s brands are doing just peachy-keen in lands afar. The gist of the NYT article is, in spite of a few minor (and basically insignificant) […]

Global Issues is an interesting web site that offers commentary and information on a whole host of topics, from Racism to Global Warming to the International Criminal Court. Haven’t had too much of a chance to explore it, but it seems to have some good stuff. (And with the title “Global Issues That Affect Everyone,” […]

Seymour Hersh, the legendary investigative reporter who won the 1970 Pulitzer for exposing the My Lai massacre, won the public-interest prize for three articles on the Bush administration’s Iraq policy. Hersh did not attend the awards, held at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, because he was busy working. Reached at his Washington office, he was also […]

A group in Britain, VARE [Victims of Animal Rights Extremism] claims that not enough is being done to “tackle the tactics of animal rights extremists that currently fall outside the remit of the police and Crown Prosecution Service.” It’s one thing to oppose laws you believe to be unjust, but it’s a completely different ballpark […]

Exhibit A: “The question Milgram sought to answer was very simple. What proportion of normal people would continue administering shocks up to the full lethal voltage? What proportion would act as if to kill an innocent person for no better reason than $4.50 and that they were told to by a psychology professor?” (emphasis added) […]