As far as contemporary absolute leaders are concerned, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il certainly ranks as one of the most interesting. To say nothing of his policies, politics, and views, he has been seen as larger–and decidedly stranger–than life. Known as a gourmand despite the contradictions inherent in that lifestyle vis Communist practice, he has been […]
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to become fully operational on Wednesday. This is a tremendously exciting event, but unfortunately it’s very rare that cutting-edge science gets the kind of attention it deserves in the media - and all too often the information gets distorted, as this article at The Times (of London, […]
I’ve been hearing about these data from Larry Bartel’s book Unequal Democracy for awhile now:
There is a nice op-ed on these data by economist Alan Blinder in the New York Times. The pattern is quite striking: everyone does better under democrats and inequality decreases, slightly. No wonder Republicans try to distract voters by talking about […]
The conspiracy theory craze of the 1990s–criticized and largely explored in some of Steve Beard’s journalism from his collections Logic Bomb: Transmissions from the Edge of Style Culture and Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture–helped further open up and prime the public’s willing desire to believe that the forces that seemed to control their bank […]
At risk of merely propagating other’s ideas instead of making novel contributions to the blogosphere, I recommend everyone reading this short piece from Paul Krugman regarding his disillusionment with the Obama campaign.