The Super Bowl (football championship game) pretends to offer the host city a lot of "economic benefits", but the are systematically overestimated. (And they go mainly to some businesses, not to the people in general.)

An Israeli who supports two-state peace spoke in London; Palestinians calling for the elimination of Israel violently shut down his speech.

I am disappointed that he endorses the idea that speech can be banned because it is "hate speech".

Noise from motor boats makes small fish more vulnerable to predators.

I am looking for people to help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.

Bernie Sanders Lacks Foreign Policy Experience, But Also His Rivals' Errors.

Voting for the Iraq war was not a mere error. It demonstrated either grossly bad judgment or a lack of courage to resist the political pressure.

Progressive elected leaders, who have no experience in military policy, sometimes feel they don't dare say no to militarists. But those militarists are part of the corporate machine that Sanders has stood against for decades, and I think he can and will face down the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.