…some business man GOP party chairman can sit in Arkansas and call for more attacks on American soil in order to swing people behind Bush and the war in Iraq, and never realize what his realpolitik notions mean in terms of actual lives. Meanwhile, soldiers actually in the field get it. Grrr. Read more →
Day: June 9, 2007
He’s not Stewart…
…but Rick Mercer is probably the funniest current events comedian we have here in Canada. I got a chuckle out of his recent From The Desk of Stephen Harper bit. Here’s one little bit: 4. Open and Accountable government. Yes the catch phrase open and accountable will not go away. We are prepared to use it every day and every… Read more →
Learning from porn.
In certain applied sciences, and engineering disciplines, it’s a kind of basic truth that the money and push for research comes from military applications. Indeed, in many areas you can look at what the military is developing now and with a little creative foresight you can have a sense of what street level technology will be like in a decade… Read more →
