(no subject)
1) Of all the offspring of time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder’s welcome. -Charles Mackay
2) Scott Adams on green building
3) Wikileaks has published a CIA memo from this March explaining that French and German voters are increasingly unhappy about the Afghanistan war, and suggesting that the government should stop showing the public generals in desert camo and start showing them suffering Afghan women who will supposedly be better off if the war continues. Last week, Time magazine's cover showed a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off on the orders of a local judge, after she ran away from her abusive husband. The story inside vehemently advocated staying the course in Afghanistan. However, the atrocity occurred in 2009, over 7 years after the US invaded and overthrew the Taliban, which does cast some doubt on the idea that the US is really doing a lot of good there and should stick around. The author, Aryn Baker, the magazine's Afghan/Pakistan bureau chief, is married to an Afghan-American IT entrepreneur whose business consists of contracts in Afghanistan with NATO and the US-backed Karzai government, which have been reported by her husband and his former employees to be remarkably profitable, and will presumably end if NATO leaves Afghanistan and Karzai's government is replaced.
4) old 2009 post about diesel autos, miles per gallon, miles per dollar, acceleration, and US/EU differences
5) 10 bizarre urban ecosystems-- in particular, check out Thames Town, a brand new Chinese town, 15 minutes by train from downtown Shanghai, made to look like a centuries old English town.
2) Scott Adams on green building
3) Wikileaks has published a CIA memo from this March explaining that French and German voters are increasingly unhappy about the Afghanistan war, and suggesting that the government should stop showing the public generals in desert camo and start showing them suffering Afghan women who will supposedly be better off if the war continues. Last week, Time magazine's cover showed a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off on the orders of a local judge, after she ran away from her abusive husband. The story inside vehemently advocated staying the course in Afghanistan. However, the atrocity occurred in 2009, over 7 years after the US invaded and overthrew the Taliban, which does cast some doubt on the idea that the US is really doing a lot of good there and should stick around. The author, Aryn Baker, the magazine's Afghan/Pakistan bureau chief, is married to an Afghan-American IT entrepreneur whose business consists of contracts in Afghanistan with NATO and the US-backed Karzai government, which have been reported by her husband and his former employees to be remarkably profitable, and will presumably end if NATO leaves Afghanistan and Karzai's government is replaced.
4) old 2009 post about diesel autos, miles per gallon, miles per dollar, acceleration, and US/EU differences
5) 10 bizarre urban ecosystems-- in particular, check out Thames Town, a brand new Chinese town, 15 minutes by train from downtown Shanghai, made to look like a centuries old English town.