The one thing about “Democracy,” by which I’m talking about just the simple (ha) idea of allowing people to elect their leaders,is that it sometimes doesn’t go the way you want. from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010895,00.html “Western leaders lined up to express their concern at the political earthquake, but in the Arab world, the apparent landslide was greeted […]
Not even an afternoon, just fifteen minutes. We show up early for therapy today (for once). Nice office-type person tells us the Doctor is busy with something but will be with us soon. We spend the next half hour, one child reading “Highlights for Children” and the other devouring anything he can find – a […]
I’d love to hear their reasons why this won’t happen in the United States (or show us that it hasn’t already) Davos Dispatches: Brin defends Google’s China move Dig this: This is nothing…there’s no malicious plan there, it just legitimately is a bottleneck that bandwidth is somewhat limited. The worlds fastest growing economy, where 97% […]