January 2010
10 posts
WatchAmazing. So what happened to question period?
“Unless it’s an extreme case, the percent an organization spends on...”
– Don’t choose a charity for Haiti based on administration costs
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant... →
This sentence has a peculiar horror: “Hickman was instructed to make no record whatsoever of the movements of one vehicle in particular—a white van, dubbed the “paddy wagon,” that Navy guards used to transport heavily manacled prisoners, one at a time, into and out of Camp Delta. The van had no rear windows and contained a dog cage large enough to hold a single prisoner. Navy drivers,...
“I remember Jean Chretien saying something years ago, before he was PM. Something...”
– Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: What is a “structural” deficit?
“Surely one way to respond to the spectacle of a guy who now shuts down...”
– Ooooh, cover-up, oooooh - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca
Social Mobility in America | Yglesias →
“Intergenerational mobility in the United States is lower than in France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Among high-income countries for which comparable estimates are available, only the United Kingdom had a lower rate of mobility than the United States.”
A Free Lunch | Kevin Drum" →
“The point of the chart is simple: Some energy efficiency measures have a net cost and require fairly careful analysis to decide if they’re worthwhile. Those things are shown on the right side of the chart. But there are lots of efficiency measures that not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but produce net cost savings at the same time. These are the low-hanging fruit of climate...
Revisiting the Intelligence Failure | Kevin Drum →
“The Christmas bombing attempt might well turn out to be a serious intelligence failure. But the evidence so far suggests that the only red flags known to U.S. intelligence were (a) a walk-in warning of dubious value from Abdulmutallab’s father, (b) warnings that a Nigerian” was planning an attack, (c) Abdulmutallab’s recent trip to Yemen, and (d) his lack of checked...