Pepper Spray Cop

Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters, is popping up in some of the world’s most famous paintings.
Posted by George Milman, Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Establishing a sovereign bantustan – Jalal Abukhater – Maan News Agency – March, 2011

"The irony is indeed that, through this maneuver (U.N. statehood vote), the PA is seizing -- even declaring as a right -- precisely the same dead-end formula that the African National Congress (ANC) fought so bitterly for decades because the ANC leadership rightly saw it as disastrous. "That formula can be summed up in one word: Bantustan."
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, September 4, 2011

Anatomy of a Scandal – By Christopher Hitchens – SLATE – 6/6/11

How Anthony Weiner and John Edwards lost control of their private parts.
Posted by George Milman, Monday, June 6, 2011

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics – By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2011

"...even if a healthy dose of skepticism is good for the self-governed, Goldberg and others worry that too many Americans have developed a corrosive cynicism, automatically assuming they are being lied to or manipulated."
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, June 5, 2011

How Big Pharma distorts costs of developing drugs – Michael Hiltzik – LA Times Apr. 3, 2011

""The most important takeaway is that nobody knows the real cost of R&D because no one has seen the data..."
Posted by George Milman, Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Constitutional showdown – A Florida judge distorted the law in striking down healthcare reform – LA Times Op-Ed 020611

The landmark case on the power of Congress to legislate on this topic is McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). The Supreme Court should follow this precedent when the case finally arrives at the top of its doorsteps. Will it?
Posted by George Milman, Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent – BMJ (British Medical Journal)

"Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare." This should be passed along to anyone with kids.
Posted by George Milman, Thursday, January 6, 2011

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – The Atlantic – Monday, November 1, 2010

Posted by George Milman, Monday, November 1, 2010

Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, Encryption Key – Wired 100610

An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack. Time for a refund.
Posted by George Milman, Thursday, October 7, 2010

Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’ – Jeffrey Goldberg – The Atlantic – September 7, 2010

Posted by George Milman, Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Time-Lapse Shows Every Asteroid Discovered Since 1980 (VIDEO)

Read explanation, then watch full screen with sound. Mind bending.
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, August 29, 2010

Chosen – The toxin of anti-Semitism isn’t a threat only to Jews – Christopher Hitchens – Book Review, Atlantic Magazine, September 2010

"The chief impetus of anti-Semitism remains theocratic, and in our epoch anti-Semitism has shifted from Christian to Muslim: a more searching inquiry into its origins and nature might begin by asking if faith is not the problem to begin with. This would also entail the related and essential question of whether the toxin of anti-Semitism is a threat only to Jews."
Posted by George Milman, Saturday, August 28, 2010

WARLORD, INC. Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan

Report of the Majority Staff Rep. John F. Tierney, Chair Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee on Oversight and Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives June 2010
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy – Aaron Zelinsky, The Yale Law Journal 2010

The judge-umpire analogy suffers from three fundamental flaws.
Posted by George Milman, Friday, June 11, 2010

Fergie’s Latest Flameout – Tina Brown, Daily Beast May 25,2010

"Excoriating the luckless Duchess of York, who’s now caught up in a kamikaze bribery scandal, has been a British national sport for years. But I’ve always found her a sympathetic figure."
Posted by George Milman, Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How I know Kagan isn’t anti-military – Walter Dellinger – Washington Post May 14, 2010

"No action Kagan took as dean remotely suggests anything but the greatest respect for the military. Even when the law school's anti-discrimination policy effectively precluded placement-office assistance to military recruiters, she permitted student veteran groups to use law-school premises to facilitate military recruitment of Harvard students. At no point were military recruiters ever barred from the campus or banned from recruiting Harvard law students. And military veterans who entered Harvard Law School when Kagan was dean have praised her efforts to ensure they were welcomed and respected for their service."
Posted by George Milman, Thursday, May 20, 2010

Goldman Lawyer’s General Advice: Devour Senators’ Time – The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes 4/26/10

Goldman Sachs reportedly has two Washington lawyers with deep experience in congressional investigations helping its executives to prepare for a hearing Tuesday. And if a recent interview with one of the lawyers is any indication, the executives will be providing as little information as possible.
Posted by George Milman, Monday, May 3, 2010

The right takes on history – Conservatives challenge views of FDR, Jamestown, McCarthy – Charlotte Observer April 7, 2010

The right is rewriting history. The most ballyhooed effort is under way in Texas, where conservatives have pushed the state school board to rewrite guidelines, downplaying Thomas Jefferson in one high school course, playing up such conservatives as Phyllis Schlafly and the Heritage Foundation, and challenging the idea that the Founding Fathers wanted to separate church and state. The effort reaches far beyond one state, however. In articles and speeches, on radio and TV, conservatives are working to redefine major turning points and influential figures in American history, often to slam liberals, promote Republicans and reinforce their positions in today's politics.
Posted by George Milman, Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Posted by George Milman, Thursday, March 25, 2010

Quit Redefining Conservatism – Christopher Buckley – The Daily Beast 2/20/10

"I thought to ask Sam Tanenhaus what he made of the Mount Vernon Statement. Mr. Tanenhaus can be considered authoritative on the subject by virtue of his varied credentials: as noted biographer of Whittaker Chambers, editor of the New York Times Book Review and Week In Review, and biographer of William F. Buckley, Jr. His most recent book, The Death of Conservatism, is required reading for any serious student of the current conservative crackup. He emailed back: 'My question is: Where are the youngsters? The Sharon Statement launched the Young Americans for Freedom college kids, for the most part. The new/old submission seems more like Geriatrics Against Obama. Also, what happed to brevity? The Sharon Statement set forth concise principles. The new one seems a windbaggy Cliff’s Notes on The Federalist Papers.'"
Posted by George Milman, Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Geography of a Recession – Animation

Posted by George Milman, Friday, February 12, 2010

Toyota Has Pattern of Slow Response on Safety Issues

Toyota’s recalls and disclosures in recent months are part of a lengthy pattern in which the automaker has often reacted slowly to safety concerns, in some instances making design changes without telling customers about problems with vehicles already on the road, an examination of its record shows.
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, February 7, 2010

I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script – Josh Olson – Village Voice – September 9, 2009

Posted by George Milman, Sunday, September 13, 2009

Stunning Government Billion-Dollar Giveaway to Paper Companies in the Works – By Christopher Hayes, The Nation. Posted April 4, 2009.

Thanks to an obscure tax provision, the United States government stands to pay out as much as $8 billion this year to the ten largest paper companies. And get this: even though the money comes from a transportation bill whose manifest intent was to reduce dependence on fossil fuel, paper mills are adding diesel fuel to a process that requires none in order to qualify for the tax credit. In other words, we are paying the industry--handsomely--to use more fossil fuel. "Which is," as a Goldman Sachs report archly noted, the "opposite of what lawmakers likely had in mind when the tax credit was established."
Posted by George Milman, Sunday, April 5, 2009

Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 – Mother Jones

Our industrial food system is rotten to the core. Heirloom arugula won't save us. Here's what will. —By Paul Roberts
Posted by George Milman, Monday, March 9, 2009