Uneasy Rhetoric

The privately funded SpaceShipOne’s recent flight marked a great leap forward for space exploration, but those who claim this as a demonstration of the power of private enterprise over public investment are fooling themselves.
The science of spaceflight owes its existence to hundreds of billions of dollars of public investment from NASA, the military, and public [...]

Downtown Déjeuner:
My Thai Cuisine ***
1009 9th Street
Under $8.
This isn’t Seattle. Sacramento doesn’t have a Thai restaurant on every corner, but I have to admit, it comes close. My Thai is one of three within my review zone (see also Amarin; a review of Gaesorn is forthcoming), and all three provide delicious, [...]

There’s an interesting thread going on over at Kevin Drum’s Political Animal about the estate tax. It started out as a post on Matthew Yglesias’ site where he suggests, but doesn’t say outright, that spoiled rich kids (one commenter on Drum’s post suggested the Hilton sisters) are one of the best arguments for an [...]

There’s a link on Ebay these days that reads “51 Members Of The United States Of eBay Use Their Voice in Washington D.C.” Ebay starts off trying to market this group as ambassadors of small, Ebay-based businesses (which, I will admit, they are), one from each state. As I read down I saw [...]

TheyWorkForYou.com is a brilliant site. We need something like this in the United States.
By the way, if you want to test it out more deeply, here is a valid British postal code: CF11 6LJ (it’s for Kevin Brennan, Labour MP for Cardiff West).
(thanks, BoingBoing!)