China has undergone unprecedented growth over the last 15 years, as the communist government worked hard to convince the west to ship entire production industries to their country to be performed cheaply (if at somewhat reduced quality) in exchange for the means to higher profit margins. As a result a vast amount of rural chinese […]
The new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael S. Steele, is giving his acceptance speech as I type this: What’s appalling (still) is that the #2 vote getter was a white Southerner, Katon Dawson, who had belonged to a whites-only country club all the way up until last September. Sheesh, have they no clue? […]
Great rocket-scientist photo of the day: The launch abort system being fitted to a dummy CEV housing in preparation of February testing at White Sands, NM. Note the “spares” in the top left.
We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]
Yesterday afternoon the conservative blogosphere was erupting over news that President Obama had given his first television interview – to Al-Arabiya: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – President Barack Obama chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, part of a concerted effort to repair relations with the Muslim world that […]
I’m doing a clean re-install of WordPress. UPDATE: everything should be up and working now. I’m trying out a few new WordPress themes as well. If you find anything that appears to be broken, please let me know. Thanks! ..bruce w..
Word from CNN that Canon of Japan has struck upon a novel idea that is actually more insightful than they may know. In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more […]
…but even I don’t think he deserves this: The website says this is the “determined pose”. The George W. Bush Chia Pet appears to have been discontinued. ..bruce w..
Courtesy of a long chain of links (here’s where I found the graphic, over at Megan McArdle’s outstanding blog), here’s a chart showing total credit market debt as a percentage of US GDP: I’m not sure that vastly expanding the money supply in the United States is the right answer. ..bruce w..
This reminds me of a series of riots in Lagos some time ago where there were “black sorcerers” that were stealing men’s genitals. It seems that blaming some evil magic is a viable explanation for almost anything. Ah Nigeria! LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. […]
