links for 2007-06-15

• Media Matters – The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth
  Conventional wisdom says that the American public is fundamentally conservative – hostile to government, in favor of unregulated markets, at peace with inequality, wanting a foreign policy based on the projection of military power, and traditional in its
  (tags: politics media liberal progressive usa conservative data government environment journalism left political reference)
• Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
  The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the part of the terrorists, our government and the press.

  (tags: article entrapment law news security terrorism politics culture hypocrisy idiots legal police research wired media)
• The Best Thought Experiments: Schrodinger’s Cat, Borel’s Monkeys
  (tags: science philosophy physics psychology interesting thought quantum reference brain blog Einstein experiment experiments research toread funny Galileo wired history humour)

~ by SAP on 14 June 2007.