The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
The Reproduction of Privilege
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/the-reproduction-of-privilege/
Vertical mobility (the ability to be born to poor parents yet go on to be middle class, for instance) in the US has been steadily eroding for well over a generation. While there are certainly …
Life on Mars? Funding to find answers fades
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/national-international/article/Life-on-Mars-Funding-to-find-answers-fades-3401227.php
I am always a bit on the fence regarding big ticket research projects funded by tax payer dollars (I am not, however, against broad-based support for science via the doling out …
Washington’s high-powered terrorist supporters
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/washingtons_high_powered_terrorist_supporters/singleton/
If you are someone who cares about the Constitution (or the tiny shreds that remain) this is an article that should make your blood boil. I would wind up copying most of the article here …
What’s wrong with Congress? It’s not big enough
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/opinion/flynn-expand-congress/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Man was I skeptical when I first read the title of the article! However, I was taken in when I read this:
…A seat in the House of Representatives has gone
The wrong exit strategy
Given Afghan history, a large U.S.-trained army would likely promote bloodshed not stability
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/08/the_wrong_exit_strategy/singleton/
Nothing much motivate me to blog today until I read this article. I recall reading very shortly after we invaded Afghanistan that …
Holder: Not ‘assassination’ to target Americans in terror hunt
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/05/holder-targeting-american-terrorists-not-assasination/?hpt=hp_t3
Can you believe this guy? Talk about legal hair spitting! So this is what our Constitution has come to.
I don’t think it is possible for it to get better …
The cost of America’s police state
Hundreds of billions have been spent to militarize our nation against a terrorism threat that barely exists
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/05/the_cost_of_americas_police_state/singleton/
I don’t have much to offer that I haven’t already but thought in the interests of …
Gen. Hayden: Stuxnet virus “Not an act of war”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57390498/gen-hayden-stuxnet-virus-not-an-act-of-war/
There is no shred of doubt in my mind that the US would consider stuxnet an act of war if it were used against us, so it seems disingenuous in …
I was reading this interesting article (likely too long for many readers) about one of the personalities behind the whole Fracking issue and thought I would use that as incentive to talk about some of my thoughts on the issues …
A bit of a slow news day, or rather a day slow on news that prompts me to comment. I read this article earlier today and was on the edge of blogging on it, but the activation energy was just …