The Mojave experiment: is Windows Vista as bad as ...
Farhad Manjoo, now at Slate, reports on Microsoft’s “strange Mojave experiment”: In mid-July, representatives of...
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George Orwell on the Futility of Empire
I would like to take a moment to suggest you pick up a copy of a very old book, A Collection of Essays by George Orwell. Much of the...
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Obama & The Summer Of Our Discontent
For Barack Obama supporters, this is the summer of our discontent. While John McCain flails, Obama does a victory lap around Europe...
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An Introduction to East Tennessee’s Great Mu...
OK, folks. I’m getting tired of politics for now. I’m thinking of laying low on politics until the DNC – checking...
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Kevin Rudd & “Australian Ideas”: ...
All nations face challenges that, at times, defy easy solutions. What to do? Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, soon after...
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Dear Pentagon, Is This What You Call ‘Securi...
The success of the ‘Surge’ and the drop in American casualties in Iraq is much in the news of late. But how significant...
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Too-Easy Answer to the Anthrax Scare
The suicide of a suspect in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks in 2001 seems to have tied up that trauma into a neat package that can be...
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Ahmadinejad’s Message To Europe And The U.S.
Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland,...
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Novak Retires, Prognosis Grim
Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement in light of what his web site calls the ‘grim’ prognosis for his...
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Prison Labor
The 8th circuit just held that the practice of shackling pregnant women to their bedpost while they are in labor does not violate the...
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