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Apparently even chimps believe in a fairness.

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It’s hard for me not to be cynical about Iraq these days. After all, I remember when Iraq was a gathering threat. I remember when Saddam harbored the kinds of terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. I remember when the next smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud. I remember when Iraq’s [...]

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I’m glad the future of my personal finances doesn’t look like this.

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I hate watching the news on TV for a simple reason — you can’t skim. I like to take in news at my own pace, reading articles that are really interesting carefully, skimming others, and abandoning any story when I lose interest. With the TV news, none of those options are easily available to [...]

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Corporations barred from giving their executives bogus loans by the Sarbanes Oxley corporate accountability legisliation are responding by giving them free money in new ways. Every time I look at executive compensation at big companies, I can’t help but chuckle at the fact this is supposed to be the vanguard of the free market. These [...]

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The Economist has a thoughtful article on the UN report on poverty that I mentioned last week.

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In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Andrew Sullivan reviews two recent books on torture, and reflects on it himself. The article is a must read.

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Departing the State Department along with Colin Powell is his deputy, Richard Armitage. As you might imagine, he has some interesting things to say about his time there. The key quote is this:

The biggest regret is that we didn’t stop 9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead of redoubling what is our traditional [...]

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I know that we live in a world of misery, pain, and random, unjustified suffering, and that in the greater scheme of things, nice pictures of outer space are not that important. That said, the fact that NASA (or, more properly, the White House) are going to let the Hubble Space Telescope go away just [...]

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So this week I read an article about the Rails web framework for the Ruby programming language that aimed to illustrate how you can build Ruby applications 10 times faster than you can build them with your favorite Java framework. The idea of saving 90% of my programming time is pretty compelling, so I eagerly [...]

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