Suicide and Statehoodby Jonathan Wallace
Among the curses of suicide, like any other violence, is that you cannot simply turn off the spigot when the goal is accomplished. |
by Evan Maloney Record labels have been quietly releasing CDs whose data tracks have been deliberately corrupted in order to make the discs unusable in PCs. |
by Sy Schechtman In the arts as in civilization generally there are pauses and lapses but general collapse is not necessarily the grim result. |
by Richard Forno Isn't it ironic that the company responsible for nearly every major computer security problem, virus, and back-door, is now heralding its ability to make everything better? |
by Richard Rossi In Judge Marquardt's 20-year career he gave the death sentence just three times. Mine was the last time, just before he was busted coming across the Mexican border with marijuana on his person. |
by Evan Maloney Terrorism has been directed by the Palestinian Authority from Arafat on down, and President Bush is the first Western leader with enough guts and honesty to call them on it. |
We call on all Americans to resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. |
by Tommy Ates The voucher vacuum would have no "off" switch. |
by Peter Bearse The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 offers some opportunities to redress the imbalance between a steadily increasing dominance of money in politics and the small and decreasing role of volunteers. |
by Seth Finkelstein On May 31 2002, a Federal court struck down a law requiring public libraries to install censorware in return for receiving certain government funding. |
The suggestion to close gun shows gives me a desire to put a 50 cal desert eagle to the person who suggested it chest and exploding them. |
I would love this book even if
my brother Joe hadn't written it....
Its a funny and nuanced children's story about a kid who believes
he's too big and noisy, and a revelation that comes when he visits
Africa with his parents.
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