Articles in the “politics” category

Smoke Screening

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 [...]

Coalition government

Posted 2 years ago, mid-October

“The events of the past few months have left me sorely disappointed in Mr Mugabe.”

Obama Calls for End to NASA’s Moon Program

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 [...]

WSJ: White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work

Posted 2 years ago, at the end of January

The privatization of NASA.

Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!

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)

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