The silver cord
Update: Roger Simon remembers .I didn’t know him personally, but I’m very sorry to hear that Ron Silver has died....
March 15th, 2009 2:51 am
Pakistan Again
The Asia Times highlights the greatest proximate danger from fast-breaking developments in Pakistan. The truce between the Taliban and the fracturing Pakistani government has released thousands of fighters to begin an offensive in Afghanistan. (typo corrected)
...March 15th, 2009 2:28 am
Waiting game
The BBC has this report on Hezbollah, which I predict will be studiously ignored, just as if it had never been uttered.
...March 14th, 2009 6:23 pm
Making it through
A reader sends a link to a PBS video of Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard economics professor and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, describing long the current crisis will last (4 to 5 years), what the G-20 will achieve (nothing) and what needs to be done next. He is interviewed by David Brancaccio, who never quite seems to get the answer he hopes for from the professor.
Open thread.
...March 14th, 2009 4:43 pm
“A politically exposed person”
Fraser Nelson, writing in the Spectator, describes how the Royal Bank of Scotland, a state-owned bank, is now asking its customers to state their political party affiliation when applying for credit cards. Nelson called the bank himself and recorded the ensuing conversation. The following is self-explanatory.
...March 13th, 2009 2:48 pm
The fatal hour
Anthony Giddens at the Guardian breathlessly describes our future. We will have jobs arising from the lifestyle changes that will come from the end of the carbon economy. Here’s his vision of Things to Come.
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