News you may have missed

• The Netherlands, of all ‘developed’ countries, “does more for the poor”.

• Two economic and political giants, India and China, compared.

“China is not a free society, and it has immense problems. But its successes should not be underestimated. They are ones that India, even with its open and democratic society, is still far from matching.”

• Men in the feminist movement: is it possible?

“But can a man ever really be a feminist? Some say it is inappropriate for men to call themselves feminists, arguing that feminism is a movement developed by and for women, and that men can never really understand what it is like to be a woman.”

• Time’s 50 coolest internet sites of the year!
  This has to be my favourite: creative ‘human clocks’.
• And as I upgraded my computer yesterday, the PC celebrated 25 years of enslaving helping mankind on Saturday. As did Castro, who turned eighty.
• On a lighter note: “Signs” of Mel Gibson’s recent outburst of anti-Semitism. Wonderful spoof! (From the Andrew Sullivan’s blog)