Zero Base Thinking

Australia: The Left Begins to Reassess Clive James, media critic, Australian, resident of England since 1962, in today's Guardian has a...

A Just Claim With all of the problems facing our nation, the amount of money that the federal government spends chasing cancer patients who...

Jemaah Islamiya This organization has been offered by some as an alternative to al Qaeda as the perpetrator of the Bali Attacks. "We ...

A Measured and Appropriate Response That's what the Australian government just announced after that recent bombing in Bali, the one with...

What is the Nature of Warfare? Or, to state this differently, human relations between groups? The basis of the interaction between human be...

The Beatles This morning, like most every morning, I woke up, did my ablutions, put up a pot of coffee, and hit the two buttons that turn on...

Struggle for the Legal Tender Even Zero Base Thinkers have to make a living, and mine derives from Television these days. Thank God it's...

Aflatoxin, Again So the Aflatoxin debate goes on. I received a particularly cogent counterpoint to yesterday's post, debunking the effec...

War in Gaza? According to The Jerusalem Post , there is a war, right now, in the Gaza Strip, between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Ha...

Aflatoxin All of a sudden, Aflatoxin is in the ether. I don't remember where I heard it first, but after I saw Bill Bennett on Fox News...

Lily Pads and Frogs My favorite futurist, Nicolas Negroponte, has described a vision of the near future in the current issue of Wired Magazi...

Wrong Way Al Now Al "Pod Person" Gore is saying that Bush is going the wrong way, by worrying about an insignificant thing like w...

Welcome Frank If the Republicans know what is good for them, they will welcome Frank Lautenberg, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled...

How Can We Get Our Freedom Back? The ACLU has a page up showcasing how the Bush administration has nibbled away at the freedoms guarantee...

Smallpox Vaccine, At Last At last, the Federals have decided to allow us to purchase smallpox vaccine.... wait, I thought for a moment th...

Taking Control? Al Gore has begun a campaign to take center stage of the democrat party. Gore is gambling that his latest statements opposi...

Air Marshal Protection? Now that more than two weeks have elapsed, I thought that the time had come for the incident on flight 442 of 9-1-...

Race in Rwanda There is in Sunday's New York Times (Registration Required) an eye-opening article concerning the attempted genocide o...

Tech Stuff Part of the attraction of blogging, for me, is the fact that doesn't cost anything. Well, I spend plenty on books and peri...

Scott Ridder On Fox News today David Asman conducted an exellent interview of Scott Ridder, the former Marine Officer and head of the mis...