11Feb/100
Robin Hood: Taxing the Banks to Help the Poor
Check out this campaign by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy:
Come be a part of the world's biggest bank job.
18Jan/100
Haiti's bones and banks' bonuses
Check out this insightful--and tragic--analysis of two instances of mourning, from the Guardian newspaper over the weekend: "The World As It Is - or - Bones & Bonuses."
1Dec/090
Links of the Day, December 1
It's World AIDS Day. Watch this vid:
Iron Man 2:
News
- Barack will make an address tonight on Afghanistan, with preliminary reports suggesting a rapid deployment of an additional 30-35,000 troops.
- The proposed Comcast-NBC merger would be the largest media merger in recent history.
- South Africa vows to treat all HIV-positive babies (which is a big change of direction post-Mbeki).
Health care
- Latino voters see health care as the overwhelming priority.
Green
- The folks over at Treehugger debunk the global-warming-conspiracy conspiracy and critique the whole Climategate fallacy.
Finance reform
- The House is moving forward on financial regulation reform; the Senate is sluggish ... very sluggish.
Miscellaneous
- My good friend Ziya looks at the different perceptions of beauty.
- Is Lasik worth thousands of dollars?