I’ve been in a literary dry spell for a while. Bought a Gore Vidal book and barely touched it. And I haven’t bothered to finish a few other things sitting around. Can’t get motivated to properly dig into this quite yet either. But there are a few newly available titles trickling into the market right [...]
Amy Davidson: Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists? Alexis C. Madrigal: The Geography of Happiness According to 10 Million Tweets Conor Friedersdorf: Would You Empower President Obama to Kill With His Mind? Daniel Kalder: I Rather Like the Taste of Horseflesh, Actually Glenn Greenwald: Obama Officials Refuse to Say if Assassination Power Extends to US Soil “New” [...]
Here’s a site that’s jam-packed with information: Nation Master. It has graphs and stats galore relating to different nations (most represented on a per capita basis). Some info gleaned… Most rapes? That honor goes to South Africa. Most murderous sovereign hellhole? Columbia. Most miserably poor? Liberia. Most corrupt? Iceland. Most shattered marriages? America! Best place [...]