Recommended Reading
Top Billing! SWJ Blog Gates Budget Plan Reshapes Pentagon’s Priorities and DoD Budget Press Briefing
A round up on the biggest proposed structural shift at the Pentagon since Nixon abolished the draft. It’s going to be a bureaucratic-legislative-political battle royal!
Information Dissemination – Observing the Pentagon Report on China Military Power
Heh. I have a copy of Soviet Military Power 1990 on the shelf.
Fabius Maximus – Important, even vital, articles from last week
FM draws on liberal economists deeply concerned with Obama’s economic policy of creeping oligarchy.
J. Bradford DeLong – For the First Time in a Decade, an Administration Is Not Making Our Long Run Fiscal Problems Worse
Brad has become, more or less, the blogospheric champion of Obamanomics.
ERMB – The Rise of Entrepreneurialism
Steve DeAngelis uses The Economist as a foil to discuss leveraging cloud computing and modular innovation as it relates to global patterns of entrepreneurship.
Soob – The “90% of Mexican cartel guns come from the US” Myth
Not surprised a whit. The MSM is more likely to shoot straight ( pun intended) on global warming or abortion than on guns. I’m also not surprised that El Paso is quiet – it is to Mexican narco-cartelistas what Florida once was to La Cosa Nostra.
Choosing the blog over the dead tree: Tom Barnett’s last newspaper column.
Congratulations to blogfriend Dr. Daniel Nexon of The Duck of Minerva for publication of his new book, The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
SEED – The Multiverse Problem
Is an obscure theory in the field of theoretical physics about to collide with the political activism of the Religious Right?
That’s it.
April 7th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for the shout out. "The Multiverse Problem" article reminds me of The Golden Compass/Northern Lights, in which the Calvinist regime has banned theories of multiple dimensions on the grounds that they conflict with Augustine’s city of man/city of god doctrine….
April 8th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Anytime Dr. Dan, I’ll order a copy on my next Amazon binge (went overboard last week).
I never knew that -re: Calvinists being against other dimensions ( hmm…aren’t Heaven and Hell in a different dimension than physical Earth? Help me, Presbyterian readers)
April 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Fantasy novels…. Anyway, N=2 for dimensions in Augustinian Christianity.