Sorry I’ve not been posting much this week. I seem to have aggravated a repetitive stress injury lately, and that has limited my typing.
In any case, I wanted to take this opportunity today to do something I rarely do: cite Bill O’Reilly. Specifically, his “talking points” memo from today’s show:

“The Taliban took credit [...]

If you have a half hour to kill, there’s a fun short story by Isaac Asimov that is a fun read. Its got a lot of fun ideas including a nice twist at the end that is fairly thought provoking. I thought I’d bring it to your attention.

Here’s what I don’t understand - why is so much weight put on the first two states in the primary. I mean, its not like Iowa and New Hampshire have all that many electoral votes. Sure, its momentum. But things that appeal in the midwest and northeast may be different than those [...]

These four candidates represent the second tier in the race for the GOP nomination. None of them are likely to win the nomination, but all of them have at least some national name recognition, none of them have any experience with foreign policy, and all of them need to solidify a hold on the [...]

I heard an interesting (but unsubstantiated) claim the other day about a problem facing hospitals. Because hospitals are required by law to admit anybody who comes to the emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay, homeless people are going to the emergency room and complaining of generic pains so as to get admitted [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, one of the big political news stories of the day is that the Clinton and Obama campaigns are feuding. They’ve been one-upping each other for awhile, as is the nature of the front-runners in any primary, but the real action started a couple days ago when a NYT columnist, [...]

It looks like the field of presidential candidates is set and Mitt Romney has launched the first television ads. So I thought it might be fun to look at the twenty-one candidates who have declared (plus one or two who haven’t), and examine their chances of actually winning. I’ll cover McCain and Giuliani [...]

No potential candidate for 2008 annoys me quite like Mitt Romney.  Part of it, I will freely admit, is irrational.  He just strikes me as disingenuous.  Furthermore, I will admit that my feelings about him are somewhat colored by the local press and my local acquaintances here in the Boston area, neither of which have [...]

A professor at MIT is going on hunger strike in order to protest the university’s decision not to give him tenure. This really pisses me off. Tenure is hard to get. Really really really really really hard to get.
At Princeton (where I am) only 20% of the faculty get tenure. And [...]

This article chronicles how children in war torn countries are kidnapped, brainwashed, and turned into professional soldiers. Its horrifying. If Americans really understood the realities of war, I think there would have been a lot less support for Bush’s policies.