Current Events Archive
Jingle Bombs
December 31, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Humor
Delightful.
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Home nuclear reactor? Sign me up.
December 20, 2007 · Category: Current Events
Toshiba has built a micro nuclear reactor designed for powering an apartment building or a city block. And apparently it's for real.
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is ...
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Down and Dirty Election Politics
Hat tip to Paul Hsieh for pointing out the best campaign ad so far in this election cycle.
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The Producers’ Strike Against TV Viewers
December 12, 2007 · Category: Current Events
Boffo has a fascinating post on why the motion picture and television studios are, somewhat mysteriously, in no big hurry to end the writer's strike.
Read the whole thing for a much better explanation, ...
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I Like Fred Thompson
I enjoyed watching Chris Wallace's recent interview with Fred Thompson -- and I share Thompson's bewilderment at Fox's nitpicking negativity, so far, about his budding campaign.
In general, I agree with Matthew Dallman's assessment of ...
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Partisanship vs. Personal Integrity
I wrote the following in response to comments from Ajasen and Austen on my post about the insanity of Bush hatred. The subject is interesting enough to me, however, that I'm promoting it to ...
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Understanding the Writers’ Strike
November 11, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Politics
If you're interested to see through the platitudes and understand the real financial dynamics behind (both sides of) the writers' strike in Hollywood, it's hard to imagine anything better than the new International Herald Tribune ...
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John Stossel: Global Warming? Give Me a Break!
October 23, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Politics
This, from ABC's John Stossel, was quite good.
I was particularly intrigued by his claim that, historically, CO2 levels tend to follow changes in temperature -- not the other way around. In other words, it's ...
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San Diego Mayor Reverses Position on Gay Marriage
Andrew Schwartz e-mailed me a link to this video, with the subject line "Integrity." I really couldn't agree more.
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Don’t Believe Your Eyes (When You’re at the Newsstand)
July 27, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Photos
Learn what any Photoshop expert already knows.
I know how to do many of these tricks, but I always find it ridiculously time-consuming. I'm sure the real experts get much quicker at it, but I ...
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