by Dawn Farmer On 9 September 1944 seven people penned their names to a sheet of paper in hopes of being remembered. Sixty years later builders working near the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau […]
Israel and New Zealand learn a lesson the hard way
They should have built fences between themselves and Mexico when they had the chance.
Tournament of Rock: Gogol Bordello vs. Epsilon-Zero
UPDATE: Epsilon-Zero fans, you better step up to the plate, because as of the moment (Tuesday morning, 8am) your band is getting poleaxed by Gogol Bordello, 89%-11%. Voting closes Thursday night, and […]
Evolve
Kevin Kelly has published a 13,000 word essay on evolution at The Technium. It is engaging, interesting and well worth your time to read. He makes two assertions; one evolving from the […]
Nota Bene #63
Hot links from recent days: “I breastfeed my dad” … Station’s merger with Fox costs Denver its Cinco de Mayo parade … Damn those Mayans and their calendar! … Jeff Huber on […]
Obama: swine flu is Dubya's fault
Yup.
Brave New World Order
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of […]
The Deproliferator: Not missile — but prevent — defense
At Rethinking Nuclear Weapons, independent nuclear scholar Ward Wilson wrote about the recent Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference. Even though it began the day after President Obama’s Prague speech. . . What surprised […]
The dance of the butterflies
by Terry Hargrove I’m having a crisis of faith. No, not that kind. The Big Guy is still number one in my book, and I hope I’m in His… somewhere. I mean […]
Scrogue blogues
Our favorites, that is. To your left on our home page is our somewhat, uh, quirky blog roll. We’ll now endeavor to attribute the listings to specific Scholars & Rogues staff members […]