Articles in the “politics” category
Posted last year, at the end of December
Fascinating article in Vanity Fair, my favorite magazine, on the TSA and the $1.1 trillion the US Government has spent on the agency since 9/11. Written by Charles C. Mann: To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a trillion dollars can wreak. So much inconvenience for so little benefit [...]
Posted 2 years ago, mid-October
“The events of the past few months have left me sorely disappointed in Mr Mugabe.”
Posted 2 years ago, at the start of February
This still has to go through Congress and a million hoops, but The NYTimes reports: President Obama is calling on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on radically new space technologies. Mr. Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for NASA asks for $18 billion over [...]
Posted 2 years ago, at the end of January
The privatization of NASA.
Posted 3 years ago, mid-December
Excellent video from the ESPN ESPY Awards held earlier this year. It’s resurgence on YouTube is timed nicely with this release of Invictus this past weekend. This year the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage was presented to Nelson Mandela, and his work to unite his country through love of sport. (thx steph)