Seems so: Unfortunately, while publicly embracing this idea, the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is unwilling to do what must be done to make it succeed. Asked to find a few places where buses could be moved faster right now, MCDOT refused, saying that it had to do a study first, and then didn’t […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

We’re too steeped in reasonableness to recognize religious fanaticism when we see it: But the deeper reason is surely the Western belief that the world is basically governed by rationality. So all conflicts arise from grievances, and all parties can be persuaded to settle a quarrel in their own interests. Refracting everything in the world […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The Beazley Foundation has, for the time being, had enough: The release quotes Richard Bray, chairman of the Beazley Foundation of Portsmouth, Va., as saying that the suspension is a stand against \u201cthe departure of numerous institutions from the discipline of a core curriculum fundamental to education in the liberal arts,\u201d and that the report […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Sounds like fun: Pancake, as the new project is known, will help Mozilla, \u201cbetter understand what people do on the web, why and how they do those things, and how we can make those things easier and more efficient.\u201d The goal of Pancake according to Mozilla\u2019s new, awesomely titled Director of Pancake Stuart Parmenter, is […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Less there than meets the eye.\u00a0 Good for Commentary for getting to the bottom of this.\u00a0 Over-reacting to these sorts of reports doesn’t do anyone any good, especially Jewish groups.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The WTO ruled that the export quotas and monopoly created an illegal two-tier pricing system.\u00a0 If you’re going to have a free-trade system, then export quotas are a problem, but for a different reason.\u00a0 China’s less interested in the cash (and the quotas aren’t really doing much for prices, anyway) than they are in forcing […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n