( Thoughts. )

I think this teacher and I have fundamentally different understandings of his textbook. I come out of it with A) UN workers are frustrated that their organization is not as effective as it could be B) one major reason the UN isn't as effective is that discussion often devolves into national policy disagreements (IE poor countries wanting high ( Read more... )

The British Parliament has placed a gag order on the newspaper The Guardian forbidding it from reporting on... something. It has to do with freedom of speech under the UK Bill of Rights. Seriously. They're banned from reporting about an issue that concerns freedom of speech.

A couple people seem to think it has to do with Toxic waste dumps off the ( Read more... )

So, those three day weekends. Can we have more of those? There aren't enough hours in a day to read everything. Especially since as soon as something becomes required I seem to fall asleep reading it, no matter how interesting it is ( Read more... )