Archive for December, 2002
Clinton calls GOP ‘hypocritical’ on Lott
“Former President Clinton said Wednesday it is "pretty hypocritical" of Republicans to criticize incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for stating publicly what he said the GOP does "on the back roads every day."
"How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?" Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he was attending. […]
No War Blog: Arguing Against "War" or the "Threat of War"…
I wrote this short piece and posted it today at Stand Down.
“If the continued support of Bush despite general reluctance to go to war can be explained in terms of support for using the threat of war to disarm Iraq, then two questions arise: (1) How important is it to disarm Iraq? And (2) is […]
Hindu Nationalists Win Indian State Election
Fear as a political tool. Works for Republicans, so why can’t the BJP use it?
“The decisive victory by the BJP, which also heads India’s national governing coalition, appeared to vindicate an electoral strategy that played heavily on Hindu fears and anger toward Gujarat’s Muslim minority in the aftermath of last spring’s riots. More than 1,000 […]
So Many Nodes, So Little Security
There is a nice map with the article.
“Only 30 percent of the networks discovered in Mr. Lara’s survey had turned on the encryption system in their Wi-Fi programs, called WEP, to secure their data. And even that encryption is crackable with some effort. On unsecured networks, a passer-by or neighbor could record all traffic or […]
Keeping Track of John Poindexter
“The head of the government’s Total Information Awareness project, which aims to root out potential terrorists by aggregating credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States, has himself become a target of personal data profiling.
Online pranksters, taking their lead from a San Francisco journalist, are publishing John Poindexter’s home phone […]
Nobel Prize for proving Economists are more Selfish!
Well, not really, but this is a good article by Joseph Stiglitz (last year’s winner) on what this year’s winner has done to help us understand economics a little bit better.
“Among the more amusing results that have come out of experimental economics are those concerning altruism and selfishness. It appears (at least in experimental situations) […]
Lieberman!?
I hope this is a joke:
“Mr. Gore’s decision opens the way for his running mate from 2000, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, to run for president. Mr. Lieberman had said he would run only if Mr. Gore did not, but he has been actively laying the groundwork in the event that Mr. Gore stepped aside.”
NY Times
There […]
Tax and Spend
“Yes, I’m deeply concerned about the words expressed by Senator Lott at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party. But I’m even more concerned about the words he used to EXPLAIN them. He said he wasn’t praising Senator Thurmond’s past racial stance, but he liked his commitment to a "strong defense" and his "fiscal conservatism."
Before the Civil War […]
Why are the coup plotters so impatient?
“This high pro-coup intensity against Venezuelan democracy enters a new paradox. The Bolivarian Constitution of 1999, born from the breast of a Constituent Assembly and approved by referendum of the citizens is, without a doubt, the most democratic in Latin America. As such, it provides for removal of elected public officials. Its Article 72 stipulates […]
Respect From M.T.A. Is Workers’ Big Concern
The NY Times actually reported the worker’s side of the story. Although 33 grand a year is not much in NY, so I find it strange that the NY times takes the claim that “Pay is not what rankles them” without a grain of salt. A visit to the union web site will show you […]
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