One writer’s opinion, shown on Yahoo, originally on ‘The Nation’ makes the case that with the current trend of the right wing of our government, led by Mr. Bush, to consider attacking Iran has the consequence of pushing up oil prices.
You don’t have to be an economics major to figure that one out.
But then some [...]
The nation celebrated its 232nd birthday yesterday. Still it is not old enough to have removed many stupid laws enacted in its ‘youth’.
Some of them -
Alabama
Dominoes may not be played on Sunday
You must have windshield wipers on your car
Alaska
No one may tie their pet dog to the roof of a car (City law in [...]
Bill Thompson, argues that the skies are becoming dark for cloud computing, and makes several assertions why this is so. In his article on BBC News, the point that rings truest to me is the possibility of the need of information and the impossibility of access due to any of a hundred different reasons.
Infrastructure [...]
An article in Newsweek brings this oddity, some people are taking the green movement to a point few of us might wish to go – at home funerals, without the aid of standard accoutrements like embalming.
James Green is dead. He’s lying on a classroom table—eyes closed, hands across his chest—while Donna Belk, who lectures [...]
Of course the Fourth of July is an important event, and we should celebrate it, with boundless joy, but also, with reflection on what it took to gain the freedom we hold dear.
However, other days of the year have their entitlements too, and July 5 is one of them.
• Independence Day in Venezuela (1811) (oh, [...]
While listening to internet radio this morning, looking at things on several aggregators, and thinking to myself how free we would truly be, if we were free from war, I saw an article that expressed a sentiment I had totally forgotten about, since studying the Vietnam war in high school. (coincidently, the songs in the [...]
Lots of chatter is going on about the release of Equipt, the newest of Microsoft’s products to rent us our software. On one side there are the opinions of how it is about time, on the other the gasps of how it is finally, dreadfully, here.
In a small way, Dana Blankenhorn, on ZDNet weighs in, [...]
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