A doctor’s predictions about whether or not various victims of assassination could be saved with modern trauma medicine. Casualty rates in american wars. The importance of medicine in keeping people alive is hard to appreciate. It’s easy to say that the US life expectancy has more than doubled since the nation’s inception, but it becomes [...]
In spirit, Mr. Rowland is right once again. Then again, in actuality, we’re still out there hitting that guy with a rock. It’d be kind of nice if one of these days we would actually stop.
Politics has never been my thing. I know how I stand on the various issues, but I just don’t care enough to go searching through the huge number of potential candidates to find the one who most closely represents my views; I certainly don’t care enough to volunteer my time on behalf of any one [...]
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was basically evil. Perhaps it was well-intentioned, but the secondary effects it legalizes are terrifying. Now there is legislature being proposed which effectively repeals it. Write your senator, and tell him or her to support the Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act. This is necessary. This is mandatory. In a democracy, [...]
It turns out that the orriginal authorship about the pithy quote regarding the trade of liberty and security is in some dispute, and I tend to use the stronger misattributions anyway. Is the ability to carry a soda onto an airplane an essential liberty? Perhaps not, in the larger scheme of things. However, it is [...]
Let’s say that the US decides to stop suffering casualties in the Middle East, decides that maybe the Iraquis can stand up for themselves and rule themselves in a sensible manner. Let’s say that by June 30, there were no more US soldiers there at all. That it was decided that the UN could step [...]
How can information be free and at the same time properly reimburse the creators? That’s a tough one. I’d rather propose an alternate system, take a look at its pros and cons, compare it to our own. Let’s start with the notion that information wants to be free, that all we really need is a [...]