esr on carrying a gun: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” Intervention by armed civilians on the spot aborts hundreds of crimes a year in the United States, and thousands more could be prevented if there were … Continue reading
I’m really disappointed by this. Colin Percival is a fine computer scientist. In a blog post titled In Defence of Truth he wrote the following: Surely, I thought, policy decisions must be guided by facts. Not so. Instead, I was … Continue reading
Cedric the Tasmanian Devil has died. Or perhaps I should say, Cedric has been killed. He was deliberately introduced to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, an aggressively infectious, fatal cancer that is threatening to make the Devils go the way of … Continue reading
The NYT today: As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed by a small army of contractors, to fill the void. By October 2011, … Continue reading
Here’s a comment on a blog post by Oliver Brett at the BBC: I am a proud son of a proud Afghan nation, and nothing and no one has made me and my fellow Afghans more proud than the extraordinary … Continue reading