Мilgram experiment

Статья человека, который "прошел" эксперимент Милграма и отказался продолжать.
Дальше интереснее - оказывается, он коммунист, и считает, что отказался продолжать именно поэтому.

This is not to say that
membership in the Communist Party made me or anyone else totally independent.
Many of us, in fact, had become accustomed to carrying out assignments from
people with higher positions in the Party, even when we had doubts. Would I have
refused to follow orders had the experimental authority figure been a
"Party leader" instead of a "professor"? I like to think so,/.../


А далее идет вот что:

Perhaps that is why examples of refusal to obey
immoral orders excite my admiration. This is especially so of the Israeli
soldiers and pilots who are currently defending the morality of their country
and of the Jewish people by refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories.

Вот и партия подтянулась, ага...



Кстати, этот же Милграм изобрел six degrees of separation (ау, SixApart!).

Профсоюзы обанкротили город

Vallejo, California, officials voted to
file for bankruptcy because the San Francisco suburb isn't able
pay its bills after costs for police and firefighters soared and
the housing market's slide cut into tax revenue.

The city council's unanimous decision last night will make
Vallejo the largest California city to file for bankruptcy and
the first in the state to seek protection from creditors because
it ran out of money to pay for basic services. The decision came
after it failed to win salary concessions from labor unions.

Профсоюзы молодцы, теперь, надо полагать, пожарники и полиция получат кучу бабла...

Йом Ацмаут

С 60-й, дорогие израильтяне!