I don’t remember how old I was, maybe ten, but I remember the first time my aunt bought groceries in the US. After years of trying, and great expense, my parents had managed to get my aunt, her husband, and their four children to Florida. My parents had gotten them a place to live, and [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by pwyll
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Via Powerline:
A total of 2,471 servicemembers have died in Iraq from 2003 to the present, a period of a little over three years. That total is almost exactly one third of the number of military personnel who died on active duty from 1980 to 1982, a comparable time period when no wars were [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by pwyll
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An Inconvenient Truth has a friend, the convenient lie. Here is Al Gore, interviewed by David Roberts of Grist Magazine.
Question: There’s a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What’s the right mix?
Answer: I think [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2006 by pwyll
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I saw this on Samizdata:
I ran across a fascinating historical footnote in the May issue of Sky and Telescope I feel should be much more widely known.
The builder of the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers was a small Manhattan company named Honeybee Robotics. The company offices are just a few [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2006 by pwyll
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“Always think of it: never speak of it.” That was the stoic French injunction during the time when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine had been lost. This resolution might serve us well at the present time, when we are in midconflict with a hideous foe, and when it is too soon to be thinking [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2006 by pwyll
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I’ve seen a lot of zombie movies, and now finally I feel like I’m in one. The living dead are on the move.
Posted on May 28th, 2006 by pwyll
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