Two Washington Post columns on US mid-terms: First, from Megan McArdle (perhaps my current favorite columnist): "So it’s not exactly surprising that many of those voters have sided with the amor… (View Post)

There are interesting parallels in what Cyclefree wrote to what has happened in American cities controlled by leftists, such as San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), and Seattle. When they cut back finan… (View Post)

Well, the Manhattan Project started modestly in 1939, and had produced two types of atomic bombs by 1945, plutonium and U-235. The total cost of the project was "nearly US$2 billion (equivalent … (View Post)

Partly on topic: The 2006 Senate election in Connecticut was won by Joe Lieberman, after he lost the first two contests. He lost the convention endorsement of the Democratic Party by a large margin t… (View Post)

Off topic, but so funny I have to share it. Near the beginning of a long Washington Post article on the pre-war failures of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Ukraine is this single-senten… (View Post)