Vol. VII, No. 1 January 2001
"A tide rises and falls behind every man
which can float the British Empire like a chip,
if he should ever harbor it in his mind." --Thoreau
Happy New Year from The Ethical Spectacle
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The Internet Bubble
by Jonathan Wallace
The stock market is based on the premise that someone will be left holding the bag. In this sense, it is like a classic Ponzi, or pyramid scheme, where the first investors are repaid from the money put up by later suckers, who can never themselves be repaid because the scheme has run its course and there are no more suckers.
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The Election
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by Peter Bearse Al Gore and the Democrats tried to perpetrate a fraud on the American public. Fortunately, our nation's Constitution, represented by the final bulwark of its defense, the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled otherwise. |
by William T. Hathaway After the savage denouement of Election 2000 we can look back on a campaign that saw Gore sacrifice his principles and Bush sacrifice our democracy, all to the great god Winning. |
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By Mark Levine According to the Supreme Court, states have no rights to control their own state elections when it can result in Gore being elected President. |
By Jonathan Wallace Gore lost Florida--or to put it more accurately, was not able to prove that he won Florida--because the Republican areas could afford to upgrade their voting technologies, and the Democratic areas could not. |
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by Howard Fienberg A recent Chicago Tribune story declared that chiropractors are now "becoming mainstream." But this story lacked an important journalistic ingredient needed to differentiate it from a mere infomercial: balance.
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By U.S. Senator Russ Feingold I believe that we have begun a climb in Congress that, I am hopeful, are the first steps that will lead us to a nationwide moratorium on executions and a thorough examination of the death penalty system. |
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By Ben G. Price Sometimes citizens have to throw themselves bodily into the path of the American juggernaut to slow it down when it's gone off track. |
By Mark Antony Rossi The field of science, as numerous other professions, has been seduced by the wiles and wealth of commercial interests. |
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We are transforming ourselves through enhancements to cognition, memory, and our senses, then looking at ourselves through those enhancements. |
Your analysis of bias regarding the treatment of Israel in our media is quite good. That you don't see a similar "pro-left" bias regarding domestic political affairs is curious. |
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