Via The Browser, Dan Ariely: In my view, most people who behave badly are not bad people. They’re just good people who are put in bad situations—where it&...
The BBC’s Owen Bennet-Jones gives Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, enough rope to hang himself repeatedly.
In his weekly column, James Surowiecki deftly explains why so many bad laws persist: they matter a great deal to a few people and not so much to everyone else. ...
Former CIA operative cites deadly suicide attack on CIA agents in Afghanistan as proof the agency has lost its way, promoting desk skills over field skills; in ...
I usually cheer for Stephen Colbert’s guests to one-up him as it means a better repartee for the audience to enjoy. But I was very impressed when Stephen ...
Overheard on the BBC: the reason why so many priests abused so many children isn’t that priests aren’t allowed to marry it’s that priests have...
Will Mary Harron’s American Psycho turn out to be one of the most telling movies of the last decade? Felix Salmon for Reuters as quoted by The Browser: Th...
The NYT paraphrasing Tony Judt: Oddly enough, Mr. Judt writes, the left and right have swapped political modes. The right has become radicalized, abandoning the...
Doctors Without Borders: we’re not NATO’s agents, nor anyone else’s: In conflict areas, MSF never works alongside, or partners with, any milit...
The fascinating Bill Gross, liberal billionaire investor: Markets will be downsized by regulation, even if governments are slow in applying new laws. “The...
About time: Purple protesters take to the streets against Silvio Berlusconi.
I’m struck by the impact that The Thick of It has made on me. In the last two days, I’ve come across two real life stories of political ineptitude t...
I’m almost always behind the times when it comes to television and movies. Last night, I began watching Mad Men. (Go Maggie!) It’s one of the darkes...
Ten years ago, I used Babelfish language translation once in a blue moon and often for entertainment. For the last six months or so I’ve been using Google...
People are amazing. Hence, the web is amazing. While looking for heavy duty cable ties in Los Angeles, I found this thread on how to use duct ties for corsets. ...
I seldom watch a movie twice, let alone an episode from a TV series. But that’s just what I did last night with the first episode of The Thick of It. The ...
Whoever makes a video game that indirectly teaches kids how to manage debt will change the world for the better, not just because our economy relies on consumer...
Randall Grahm on being somewhere. And wine. A wonderful lecture with photos.
A colleague asked me if our company was still throwing a conference I will refer to as “The Fun Meeting,” to which employees from around the country...