Jeanne thinks it makes her duller: Naomi Baron has the latest variation on the theme in an LA Times op-ed today: The internet will make you stupid. I actually think there’s something to that, though, and in this case I’m not lamenting young whippersnappers dullness of mind, but my own. I find that the more [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Going Out Well
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on November 29, 2005 |
Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham from California admitted to taking bribes yesterday and resigned. His actions are the worst kid of corruption, because they place money above constituents. He should be punished to the full extent allowed by the law. However, his resignation letter was actually something to be proud of: I am resigning from the [...]
Beggers Cannot be Choosers
Posted in Iraq on November 29, 2005 |
The US is apparently going to initiate the first high level contacts with Iran since 1979. The reason? To beg them to help us keep Iraq from burning to the ground: President George W. Bush has asked US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to reach out to Iran for assistance in subduing the unrest in [...]
Black is white. We have always been at war peace with Eurasisa The White House has for the first time claimed ownership of an Iraq withdrawal plan, arguing that a troop pullout blueprint unveiled this past week by a Democratic senator was “remarkably similar” to its own. It also signaled its acceptance of a recent [...]
Via Digby, we find this horror: You might want to go back and brush up on your history, witchcraft was quite popular, even within the Church, for an awfully long time. In fact, it’s back today in the form of Wicca. In its denial of the basis of Western Civilization it is so transgressive that [...]
Copyrights Should Not Be Property
Posted in Culture, Economics, Media, Politics on November 28, 2005 |
Matt Yglesias has a link to a survey of the literature on file-sharing’s economic effect. Matt says this: To my way of thinking, which also happens to be the correct way of thinking, the last point is entirely decisive. Record companies and their movie studio allies have managed to convince a shockingly large swathe of [...]
The Hate Us For Our Freedoms
Posted in Iraq on November 28, 2005 |
Such as the freedom to make videos of private security guards randomly shooting Iraqi civilians. A “trophy” video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which [...]
Creationists Apparently Mislead AP
Posted in Education, Religion, Science on November 28, 2005 |
Two people in California are suing the proprietors of a UC web site designed to help teachers teach evolution: Jeanne and Larry Caldwell of Granite Bay say portions of the Understanding Evolution Web site amount to a government endorsement of certain religious groups over others because the site is partly funded through a public money [...]
Papers, Please
Posted in Legal Issues on November 25, 2005 |
It can happen here: One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The [...]
I saw adds yesterday for stores opening at 5 am. 5 am, the day after a major family holiday, and retailers are forcing their employees to come into work in time to open a store at 5 am. Even in a small strip-mall shop, that probably means getting to the store around 4:30 am. In [...]
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