Tag Archives: usa

NYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion

We have to avoid being like Europe so we’ll do what Europe did but it’ll turn out dif­fer­ently for us.

March 24, 2011 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives

Not typ­i­cally known but true, espe­cially when tak­ing into account the pol­lu­tants that coal plants emit.

March 20, 2011 – 2:46 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Science, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain

This should be declared uncon­sti­tu­tional, once work goes in the pub­lic domain, the work should stay there, per­pet­ual copy­right is a bad deal.

March 8, 2011 – 1:14 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Culture, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – White House Issues Report on Women in America

And you won­der if fem­i­nism is still needed or if women are treated equally?

March 6, 2011 – 9:11 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Scientific American Blogs – Observations: Can we get off oil now?

The argu­ment of drill here, drill now, doesn’t really mean much.

March 6, 2011 – 7:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – “No lobbying,” says senator before taking movie biz lobby job

I won’t lobby, but I’ll take the top job of a lob­by­ing firm.

March 3, 2011 – 9:35 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Reason Magazine – Room for Disagreement on Gay Marriage

Turn­about is so unfair.

February 28, 2011 – 10:37 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off