Saturday, February 1, 2014
Pervasive corruption...
Pervasive corruption... This article about the effects of pervasive corruption in Afghanistan is an eye-opener. Most Americans have no experience at all with corruption this profound, and that makes it very hard to really grasp what it does. I have some experience, from New Jersey in my childhood, to southeast Asia in the '70s, to Russia in the '90s and '00s. Russia was particularly bad (and I understand it's considerably worse now, and organized), but it was never as bad as the Afghanistan this article describes...
POV video of Felix Baumgartner's jump...
Useful tools for dealing with progressives...
Useful tools for dealing with progressives... Logical fallacies, listed and explained. I used this to understand something James Taranto wrote :)