My RSS feed

I have chosen to follow several RSS feeds, NPR, Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia News) Slate and D-Listed (not for academic purposes). I will be honest the RSS feed is overwhelming and distracting for me but, I am giving it a chance. I do prefer my NPR radio and Podcasts to RSS. I wish that the synopses that are provided were a little longer and more detailed. In most cases, I find that I have to actually click on the link and read the article.

This is something I found via my Slate RSS feed and would like to share with the group.

Why killing "criminals" with drones is a war crime.

http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=98e75a9b85822516ecaa8cf554fa2f70

I found this article via Google reader on Slate. The title of the article attracted me because I have only heard positive things about drones, and I wanted know what some of the down sides could be. This article has brought up some ideas that I hadn’t previously considered. I think the author does go too far in some places (Drone porn) but, I think the article is still worth reviewing.

“while the "counterterrorist" drones may well create more terrorists than they kill. Americans have a penchant for believing there is a solution to every big problem—"solutionism" it's been called. But here all the options are infeasible or bad. And so naturally we avert our eyes and hope the whole thing will go away.” Slate, Rosenbaum