Sunday Linkblast - Dec 28

• Fusion and limitless power
  Scientists plan to ignite tiny star
  
  
• Responding to a prison riot with saturation bombing
  Haaretz: "A million and a half human beings, most of them downcast and desperate refugees, live in the conditions of a giant jail, fertile ground for another round of bloodletting. The fact that Hamas may have gone too far with its rockets is not the justification of the Israeli policy for the past few decades, for which it justly merits an Iraqi shoe to the face."
  
  
• Late and unlamented
  RIP to the Chicago School of economics.
  
  
• Winners and Losers
  Harper learns humility and Ignatieff gets the job he wanted without having to engage in any of that tiresome democracy. What now?
  
  
• Private spending good for economy, public spending bad
  Chicago may be dead but Zombie Freidmanites still stalk the web.
  
  
• Not just big but good
  If you are opposed to the basic concept of government it isn't in your interest to do it well, if you think government has an important role you need to be good at it.
  
  
• Dick in name, dick in nature
  Dick Cheney, the last man on Earth who still thinks torture works.
  
  
• Run Neocons run!
  Ah, your frustrated tears taste so good!