Obama = Worse than Bush

Barack Obama in August, 2007: Barack Obama today? Read it and weep, Conflucians. From Raw Story (h/t commenter iloveny) President Barack Obama invoked “state secrets” to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency’s warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed. The move [...]

The Brits are Bored with Barack

First thing this morning, commenter Fif, posted a link to a hilarious blog entry by Iain Martin at the Telegraph UK, “Barack Obama really does go on a bit.” Isn’t it time for him to go home yet? It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much [...]

What’s wrong with this picture?

No, I’m not talking about the fact that they didn’t put the tallest guys in the back row.  From Egalia at Tennessee Guerilla Women: World leaders are men. Women are wives. The imbalance of power is unmistakable. There was plenty of racial and ethnic diversity at the G20 Summit of World Leaders. Gender? Not so [...]

Monday: Billionaire Biologists

The NYTimes has an article about the world of D. E. Shaw quants and an Larry Summers.  Louise Story, who wrote the piece, doesn’t go into details about what it is that Shaw’s group does exactly and, to be honest, this is really a job for someone like David Kestenbaum, the Harvard trained physicist turned [...]

Confluence Insomniac’s Edition

Ok, I’ve tried everything (well, *almost* everything) I can think of to get to sleep and nothing is working.  I see that myiq2xu failed to post my two recommendations for Worst Music Video.  And although I don’t think anything will top Vlad of Moldavia, I thought I’d post my nomination for Worst International Music Video.  [...]