The President and the Republican party have waived the prevailing wage law for workers doing reconstruction.

Imagine that…

Your home has been destroyed, but you can’t get a job doing reconstruction that pays a living wage… even if you’re a skilled worker.

Why? So companies like Haliburton can offer wages significantly below what you’d been paid before the [...]

It is clear that the Science Education system needs help.

The number of people who radically misunderstand Evolution is large, growing, and dangerous.

We can’t just blame it on dumb people.

We don’t do a good enough job with education.

When I was in 10th grade, the first day, I sat down in science class and was told by [...]

I wrote this as a comment on another blog that was saying that the court ruling is a terrible thing. The blog I commented on is called “Blogtending” and you can find the post here.
First… There is not a risk to morals, or to patriotism here.
The Constitution says the government cannot attempt to establish religion… [...]

There is a great article in IEEE’s Spectrum.

It details massive software failures. But small ones matter, too. Heck, just continuing to select Microsoft stuff is a failure, particularly IE and Outlook.

Why do projects fail? The article has this list, and includes more examples and details. Everyone in business should read the whole article, even if [...]

The belief system of the Neoconservative movement is fatally flawed. There is not room in this post to address this, but the signs are accumulating:

a) The Iraq war was a based on manufactured evidence. This is OK in the Neocon world, where democracy is made to be manipulated by and for the elite. Aggressive US [...]

I’ve been caught out saying some dumb things, as have we all.

My first response to the Katrina (while it was still raging) was “I gave to Red Cross after the Tsunami, but that was Indonesia… I don’t feel like helping this time, this is America, they can recover themselves.”

There were several things wrong with that, [...]

I love C-SPAN.

The authors of historical books get literally hours to talk. I’m watching an author named Jack Hamann.

His book:

“On American Soil : How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II” (Jack Hamann)Looks interesting. Many people, in decrying the treatment of prisoners in relation to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib have said that we didn’t [...]