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• The Billary Road to Republican Victory

  Sun Jan 27, 2008
  • Frank Rich's editorial is the best explanation of why Democrat's best chance in November is Obama, and the Republican's best chance is McCain.

• Waving goodbye to hegemony

  Sun Jan 27, 2008
  • The main thing I got from this opinion piece was that the our place in the World has changed dramatically in the past 8 years. Our share of the world GDP is declining, which in practical terms means that our relative power in the world is also declining.

• A Miracle-Worker Highway Man Rides the Bonus Train

  Sat Jun 2, 2007
  • Free enterprise at its very best.

• Apple’s Chief Calls for End to Music Copy Protection

  Tue Feb 6, 2007
  • Steve is on the right. Consumers obviously aren't thrilled with DRM protected music, which may well account for why each iPod has an average of only 22 songs purchased from iTunes. DRM doesn't really protect music--the only ones affected are the ones who do legal download.

• BrewTube

  Sun Feb 4, 2007
  • The media world is changing. Anheuser-Busch may or may not get it right. But they get it.

• Unhappy Meals

  Mon Jan 29, 2007
  • Eat Food. Not Much. Mostly Plants. Superb essay covering both the cultural factors that govern food production and consumption in America, with useful, though difficult, recommendations about how to improves one's own diet.

• Anywhere the Eye Can See, It’s Likely to See an Ad

  Tue Jan 16, 2007
  • This looks like an arms race. Everyone loses, except of course, the arms dealers--in this case the people who build the advertising campaigns. The audience suffers overload and just shuts down, and advertisers have to spend more to just to stay even with the competition.

• Bush and Cheney Rebuff Critics of Iraq Troop Increase

  Sun Jan 14, 2007
  • What would victory in Iraq look like? We have overthrown Sadaam. There is an elected government. Given that the original reasons for the invasion were so far off the mark, what are the underlying reasons for our continued involvement.