Month: October 2009

On July 20th, I was on a conference call with the president that I described here. Fortunately, Ezra Klein produced a transcript so that you don’t have to take my word for what the president said. The House bills and the...

Government is running with the help of online transactions. Even election campaigns run fastly and reaching many people with the help of online communications only. Many countries have made even elections through online voting...

at one time a harbinger of good luck according to seaman’s lore,   it has recently become an dark omen presaging  the future disasters facing the planet if we refuse to alter our wasteful and neglectful habits....

A leading human rights group, Human Rights Watch, has rejected a claim by its founder that it is biased against Israel. The problem is that the founder, Robert Bernstein, claims that he restricted the focus of HRW to...

(Full disclosure: The group that organized the protest is one I work with on my job.) This is something I wish I’d been a part of, and I hope they call me if they need an extra baritone next time. (It’s rare that my...