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News & Commentary
Supreme Court sides with high school cheerleader who cursed online
Students now free to write “F cheerleading” on their Insta. Or some such.
Rapid Response Team follow-up
I’m surprised it took them this long to resign.
Officers, sergeants resign en masse from Portland’s Rapid Response Team crowd control unit
Who would want to be on that unit?
Tesla’s bad yoke
You have to get hardware right.
The Empowering of the American Mind
Principles for public education reform.
Ten Senate Democrats and Republicans say they reached five-year, nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal
Without all 50 Senators the Democrats are actually in the minority.
Church clarifies penalties for sex abuse
That this is considered a step forward speaks volumes.
After a year of Portland protests, activists see no end in sight
City still standing. More work to be done.
Inflation
It’s what happens when you dump trillions into an economy and supply falls.
WandaVision
Fun TV series is marred by a stunningly bad ending.
Essays
I protest
It now seems all but inevitable that George Bush will cast aside world opinion and illegally violate the territorial sovereignty of another nation. Perhaps this will take place with the assistance of Great Britain or maybe it will be a unilateral action, but unlike the world-wide coalition built by his father during the Gulf War, there is almost world-wide condemnation of this Bush's war plans. And why should there not be? If the United States can unilaterally bomb and...
Winning the American Game
Words, words, and more words on how to get rich (hint: not quickly) and on how to properly understand this screwy board game called Life. I mean capitalism. Either way, time to sell the cattle ranch!
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 5
Chinese airplane bumper cars, Microsoft's Passport revoked, BC forgets to bring the funny, the NBA tries to get "in the zone," and the hubris of dot-commers remembered with a sad shake of the head and roll of the eyes. I'm probably the only one, but I think, if the Chinese were to check closely at the bottom of the United States recent letter of apology saying we were "very sorry" for their pilot killing himself by ramming into our plane and for the subsequent landing on...
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 4
Thus spake Zarathustra: Any commentary on 2001 shall include a Green Bay Packer with mouse ears, Dubya's elevation to the presidency, a rash of dot-com deaths, and the latest in Microsoft idiocy. And so it was written. I'm imagining the commercial would go something like this: Voice Over: "Mark Chmura, former All-Pro tight end for the Green Bay Packers, you've just been found not guilty by a jury of your peers of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a party. Now that your...