- I need to be away today.
U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Military Acts in Mideast Region
Generals love war. That's what they do. Do we really want to take on the entire Muslim world plus parts of Asia and Africa. Is this really how we want to live? Do we really want our children and grandchildren to live in war. This sounds like Europe during its first 2000 years. We need to get a grip. Our most important problem is to find a way not to destroy our planet.
- I need to be away today.
- The locals are paranoid. Get them looking under the beds.
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Two Theories of Change
David- Love the Scots. Love their whiskey (especially single malt). But, sorry, boys...Edmund Burke was an Irishman!
- David Brooks does not like the TeaParty
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Many Faiths, One Truth
Though every religion has a sense of exclusivity as part of its core identity, there is genuine potential for mutual understanding.
- "Jaw jaw is better than war war." Winston Churchill
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Following BP’s Lead
No arguments here, but you want to know something? The U.S. government, indeed, the entire developed world, is OWNED by oil companies. Without them, the cars stop. No one gets to work. The trucks that haul lettuce 3000 miles to your local grocery store stop dead in their tracks. No on eats. Our entire economy, desperately and completely and utterly dependent on cheap and plentiful oil, stops. So if you're BP -- why worry? Obama needs you as much as every President, Prime Minister and despot does. For without BP and its ilk, the entire machine grinds to a halt. The civilized world as we know it, stops. I wish I were exaggerating.....
- We need the oil. The resource is not the company. KILL!
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Toilets and Cellphones
Get some perspective Roger. Perhaps put your cellphone in the freezer for a day or two.
- What people think is important is interesting. Cell phones are democratic.
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When Passengers Spit, Bus Drivers Take Months Off
Collect the DNA of the spitter and store it in the criminal DNA files. Also buses should be equipped with cameras so the associated spitter's picture could also be stored. The spitters should be arrested. These are possibly sick dangerous individuals. The bus drivers should be satisfied with this. They don't need more than a day or so to recover. They should also get time off for any trial or other criminal proceedings against the spitter. A crazy person once spat on me in the subway. I wiped it off immediately and washed as soon as I could. But I didn't take any time off from work. Taking three months off with pay is morally stealing a large sum of money from the public. I think this is much worse than the spitting.
- Where are the class 4 bio-hazard suits? It is a dense city. coughs and sneezes are just as hazardous.
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Waste, Fraud and the Truth
Your editorial is entirely wrong in its conclusion that the most important areas to be cut in the federal budget are "out-of-control health care spending" and "inadequate revenues". Elsewhere in the NYT, you have noted that "The Pentagon has now told the public, for the first time, precisely how many nuclear weapons the United States has in its arsenal: 5,113. That is exactly 4,802 more than we need." You have also noted that the U.S. has 11 aircraft carrier strike forces while the most any other country has is 1. As usual, you have ignored the gorilla in the room: spending on war making potential is grotestquely out of line with the needs of the United States. We grossly exceed Eisenhower's worse fears of the military industrial complex. Like ancient Athens and Rome, our grandiose military ambitions undermine the nation. The hypocracy of your headline about "truth" and what follows are even worse than the Republicans denouncing deficit spending.
- We need more income to support our debt. Cutting military spending means getting out of our military commitments.
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The Old Enemies
The Obama administration is facing grass-roots anger, but that anger is being channeled and exploited by corporate interests.
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BP Kept Using Toxic Chemical in Gulf After E.P.A. Deadline
At last! A Republican talking point. The Fox regime will attempt to dissolve this entire affair into a pseudo-scientific debate over whether EPA or BP was right about the toxic dispersant, with all right wing true believers siding against EPA. Studies will be trotted out, etc. For the Administration there is no way out of this digressive trap, since it involves "two sides" and a specious "search for truth," which is fodder for the duality grinders at Fox.
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U.S. Expands Secret Military Acts in Mideast and Beyond
A secret directive by Gen. David H. Petraeus is aimed at disrupting militant groups or countering threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region.
Following BP’s Lead
BP has been an environmental menace since before the recent gulf disaster. Federal regulation and oversight have been weak, and the president must take action.
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Migrating Thousands of Miles With Nary a Stop
Tiny transmitters and even smaller geolocators make it possible to track different species of birds on their travels.
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Toilets and Cellphones
We want our freedom unhitched to responsibility — until we need Big Brother to rescue us.
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Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons
Britain has evolved into a base for climate change skeptics who have dominated news reports, convincing many that the threat is exaggerated.
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BP Kept UsingToxic Chemicalin Gulf After E.P.A. Deadline
The effort to stanch the gulf oil spill was mired by setbacks Monday as officials feuded with BP over its failure to meet deadlines and its refusal to stop using a toxic dispersant.
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When Passengers Spit, Bus Drivers Take Months Off
Fifty-one New York City bus drivers who took paid leave after a spitting incident had, on average, 64 days off.
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Two Theories of Change
America has never settled whether its governing form of reason is one of radical abstraction or humility and gradualism.
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Deal Reached for Ending Law on Gays in Military
A House panel could begin to take up the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as soon as this week.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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