Words of Mass Destruction. President Bush’s appointment of John Bolton to the UN has indeed created a disasterous relationship with the organization, as many predicted. Bush ignored the Senate in order to confirm Bolton perhaps because someone (Cheney and Rumsfeld) believed that the only way to right (what they saw as) the wrongs of Colin … Continue reading Bolton launches WMDs at UN→
So I’ve been getting fraud email from @gmail users lately (ironically purporting to be @yahoo users). I simply made sure I had the header information and I forwarded the entire message with a brief “please investigate” message at the top to their “abuse” team. I expected Google, like most companies, to parse my email with … Continue reading Bad form from Google→
Audi has announced that it is starting to use four valves per cylinder in its newest diesel powerplant, available in the sporty A3 and A4 models…except in the United States. Alas, Americans still have no Audi diesels and will have to settle with VW and Daimler-Chrysler for the time being if they want modern diesel … Continue reading Eine Kleine Pumpe-Duse Diesel→
In a case called Garcetti v. Ceballos, the US Supreme Court ruled that whistleblowers do not have a Constitutional right to free speech. I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me that the Court has basically said that employers should be able to discipline employees for speech on the job without any regard to whether … Continue reading US Supreme Court rules against whistleblower rights→