While updating my iPhone I found a peculiar application, Stand Up Take Action, which allows people to click a button and get counted to express their support for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The application didn’t have any other purpose, like asking you to make a donation. So I went to their website, which [...]
A common argument against concealed carry weapons permits (CCW) is that it would result in more crime, often expressed hyperbolically as precursor to a bloodbath. With 48 states allowing some form of concealed carry, we should expect that there have been enough natural experiments to answer this assertion definitively. My expectation is that the people [...]
Robert Reich recently posted an article on Salon about why we should not worry about the US government debt, and why it should be even higher that it is now. Government spending, he says, got us out of the Great Depression, and it can get us out of the current recession. Reich’s dad though that [...]
Would you be my Friend? Here is Google’s Friend Connect Widget: And Here is Facebook’s. Facebook requires a lot more work, because you have to program in XFBML Your picture, if you are logged into facebook: Here are a bunch of your friends: