Backseat driving

Yesterday evening, I made a substantial-for-me donation to the John Edwards campaign, a kind of "I spit on the political universe"...

TokyoTom has done a good job of concealing the fact that he has a blog, but he mistakenly let the news out with this post criticizing what ...

I mostly like Andrew Dressler's obesity-climate change analogy . To summarize: a. responding to obesity by cutting calories is like re...

So my candidate John Edwards is only doing a little better than my favored candidates usually do in an election. While it would take a mira...

(Female indri in a duet with her mate, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park.) A few Madagascar-related odds and ends: The rainy season started a...

Via the Volokhs , Mike Huckabee says, "Marriage has historically, as long as there’s been human history, meant a man and a woman in a r...

So we were short term visitors with just a superficial understanding of the place, but it's hard to understand why Madagascar is one of ...

So we're back from the honeymoon - 25 days in Madagascar, the first week doing some volunteer work, and the rest checking out the sights...

I'm off on the honeymoon, and unlikely to be able to post until mid-January. Happy Holidays! -Brian

Some random notes on Frans de Waal's " Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution ," a bo...

I've added a section on enhanced interrogation/torture here , to reflect her record of secret briefing and non-objection to waterboardin...

Title: Climate agreements based on responsibility for global warming: Periodic updating, policy choices, and regional costs Author(s) ...

That's what destroying the videotaped "interrogations" of Al-Qaeda members amounted to, if you accept at face value the Bush A...

People seem to be taking it seriously, unlike me . Gristmill is posting non-stop - if I can't read all those posts, I wonder who's ...

That was his motivation for killing strangers . So I'll just repeat this post from April 19th after the Virginia Tech killings: One sma...

Crooked Timber has a great clip, the Bubble 2.0 Music Video . I'm not involved at all with the tech industry, but just living here in S...

The recent National Intelligence Estimate saying Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is great news. First, it's great news...

I think we've got the details nailed down so I can blog about it: William Connolley , James Annan , and I are betting against Joe Romm...

Maybe there's a reference to this somewhere that I missed before, but in this YouTube clip , John Edwards says he will stop the FBI raid...

Congress has agreed on legislation raising fuel standards by 40% by 2020 . Robert Samuelson, Feb. 7 2007, "Global Warming and Hot Air...