Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.