Kevin Drum has an interesting article on social security and makes some pretty strong claims that it is not a crises:
The answer is all in the numbers. For instance, the future of Social Security is highly sensitive to predictions of economic growth, and the trustees assume a very conservative growth rate of 1.8% per year. […]
This Slate article seems a little weird to me:
But a comparative analysis of U.S. casualty statistics from Iraq tells a different story. After factoring in medical, doctrinal, and technological improvements, infantry duty in Iraq circa 2004 comes out just as intense as infantry duty in Vietnam circa 1966-and in some cases more lethal. Even discrete […]
I’ve added a few new sites to my blogroll, and, sadly, have removed Vestigial Fish who seems to have disappeared from the blogosphere.
Check out the new additions, and the old ones if you haven’t already.
Here is a touching first hand account of a wounded soldier’s interaction with Donald Rumsfeld:
Well, the timing worked out well, because I was taking my patient to the recovery room when we wheeled the stretcher through a mob of dignitaries, to include 3 and 4 star generals. I knew the Secretary was nearby, and it […]
Dave Barry is as funny as ever.
While I won’t do a full fledged year in review thing myself, this was a pretty good year for me. Hope you found it the same and that the next year is even better.
Check out this post by Jeff Jarvis on Iranian bloggers being tortured.
(via Instapundit)
Bill at Reason’s Edge has linked to an article of kids reactions to some of the great video games of yesteryear.
Brittle Truckers indeed.
Lileks shills for donations for the tsumani victims as only he can:
I tossed some money to the American Red Cross tonight (Amazon makes it very easy) and did so with a small amount of self-disgust. At least now I know the death toll that gets me to open up the wallet. From now on my […]
Austin Bay has written an article well worth reading. The whole thing is great, but this bit is especially interesting:
In September 2001, I suggested we call this hideous conflict the Millennium War, a nom de guerre that captures both the chronological era and the ideological dimensions of the conflict. If there is one mistake […]
