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Let's have 2000 all over again!
All year long now, it seems, people have said they hope the 2004 U.S. presidential election won't repeat the 2000 election. They don't care who wins - they just want whoever it is to get a decisive...
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Explaining the election results
I suspect Nader was the deciding factor again, but not in the way most people thought he would be. Nationwide he drew only 1 percent of the vote this time.Alert readers will recall that many Florida...
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What if they're not bad? What if they're great?
We're now far enough into National Novel Writing Month for it to be abundantly clear I won't have time to participate this year.Never mind that my effort would have been symbolic and unofficial anyway,...
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A deeper wave than this
The past week can both sadden and uplift any thoughtful mind.Under all the talk about how much the Western nations ought to give in the efforts to help survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster,...
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music and sharing
When they killed Napster I stopped buying CDs.Now they try to tell us Napster is back, but don't be fooled. The thing that wears the name of Napster today is nothing but a shambling zombie.The soulless...
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robbery or radio?
My last post apparently needs some clarification.The recording industry could have treated the challenge of file sharing as the moral equivalent of radio. They could have found some way to profit from...
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The Resilient Society
"Stop it before it happens."Many people set that as the top priority for any government agency charged with defending us against attack. Whether we think of "homeland security," or the older term...
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Review: Land of the Dead
Note: this is a spoiler-free review.The inventor of the modern zombie movie has come back, to prove nobody else can do it quite the way he does.It's arguably true that other horror filmmakers might...
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Muslims respond to London bombings
(Note: Originally posted on 7 July 2005 to Blogcritics.org. Yes, I'm a little behind in my efforts to keep this blog synchronized.)News of the bombings in London swiftly spurred ignorant and prejudiced...
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