Making Decisions
adminJonah Lehrer over in Boston writes about how people make decisions. The most famous decider is in the White House, and goes with his gut, to the exclusion of obvious…
Voting and Elections
There are elections in the US coming up soon, and it looks likely that there will be elections here in Japan as well. I'm really saddened that in both of…
Utterly Cynical GOP
Saw this first on Digg, where the GOP is trying to use foreclosure roles in Michigan to deny people the vote. How sadly, sinisterly ironic is this. Deregulate the mortgage…
Woes on Wall Street, Black Swans
I woke up this morning and opened my browser, and found the Dow down 500 points, to less than 11,000. Lehman Brothers is filing for protection against bankruptcy (Chapter 11,…