Wednesday, May 31, 2006

DeLong on how to be a treasury secretary

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Brad DeLong, a Clinton insider, has written a fascinating essay on how to be a Rubinesque treasury secretary . Whether or not the method wou...

New Orleans will not be entirely rebuilt

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It's looked for a while as though there was reluctance to rebuild on the lower parts of New Orleans. This may end the debate: New Orlean...

Molly Ivins: Enron's President Bush

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Molly Ivins makes the populist case. It's a strong case these days. I liked the summary of the campaing contributions Enron and its exec...

A diversity of minds: are humans less alike than we imagine?

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Like everyone else who's worked with autistic children, I have a theory about autism. I have no data and no real expertise, so I'm f...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

War crimes at Hadithah: not unique, inevitable

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This I too believed before I read Arkin. I suspect it's what wise military leaders also believe about the marine revenge killings that o...
Monday, May 29, 2006

The Deborah Howell affair: can bloggers improve a lazy (or corrupt) journalist?

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DeLong makes it clear that the Washington Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, was either corrupt or lazy when she parotted the GOP party ...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

Establishing identity: Bloomberg's DNA database

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NYC Mayor Bloomberg wants biometric ID methods for all: BREITBART.COM - NYC Mayor Advocates U.S. Worker Database ... You don't have to w...

All alpha all the time - convicting the CEO

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The clue, my sister-in-law says, is the salad bar at the Harvard Business School. A flock of CEO-wannabees contending for one optimal aspara...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Taking the brains out of our prey

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As I'd noted earlier, it's hard to come up with an objective system of ethics that gives humans special privileges . One of those sp...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Using pain to prevent secular humanism

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Salon has a disturbing review on the use of pain to prevent the development of secular humanist or liberal tendencies . Various whips and st...
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The Harvard Business Review and Home Depot

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The Harvard Business Review recently published a worshipful profile of Robert Nardelli and his brilliant work at refactoring Home Depot. Now...

The marines learn the lessons of Abu Ghraib

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In the face of war crimes that cannot be denied, the marines are now making the right moves: Top Marine Visits Iraq as Probe of Deaths Widen...

Modern HIV is 75 years old

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Chimps seem to do fine carrying SIV, so presumably they've been infected for millenia - or longer. It now appears human infection is abo...

The return of estrogen?

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Some neuroscientists believe the female brain does badly off estrogen, and moves from better-than-male to worse-off following menopause. Con...

How to dismantle a democracy

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Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules The Bushies are writing the 21st century book on how to dismantle a democracy.