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• Iowa Library's Cat Has a Rich Second Life as a Biography

  Thu Apr 5, 2007
  • Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. A great satire--I don't have any idea what you're talking about, but it's great. You done got yourself a novel here, young man, god help you. In Jameson Veritas

• The smoking elephant in the room

  Fri Oct 20, 2006
  • Good try, but the gun nuts are never going to let us doing anything substantive about the problem.

• The Geneva Conventions and Habeas Corpus: Why the Left-Wing Reactionaries are Wrong

  Thu Oct 19, 2006
  • Just when you thought it was safe to blindly and blithely condemn Bush & his Busharinas, an article like this comes along. I don't agree with all of it, but he's raised the intellectual discussion bar and exposed the complexities of the situation in ways most of us would prefer he didn't.

• Clint Eastwood: Celluloid Illusions of War

  Tue Oct 17, 2006
  • What's sad is that there are real heros out there...but we abuse our military twice: first by sending them to kill and be killed, and then by holding them up as paragons of virtue that no one could live up to. Excellent piece.

• Information Addiction: The Affliction of The Web

  Mon Oct 16, 2006
  • Very important article & what should be an extensive dialogue. There must come a point where information overflow short-circuits critical and analytical functions.

• Race-Baiting on Campus: Minorities Demand Affirmative Action in Grading Policy

  Mon Oct 16, 2006
  • Back in the 60s, we were all for doing away with grades...then we met some of the other people at college, you know, the ones who walked dragging their knuckles on the ground...and decided that wasn't a very good idea.

• Newly Completed Tolkien Tale Due in Spring

  Wed Sep 20, 2006
  • May Christopher Tolkein live long and prosper and continue to compete his father's work. For Tolkein freaks, this is terrific news.

• Why is George Allen's Jewish Heritage an Issue?

  Wed Sep 20, 2006
  • Allen is such a moron, it's tragic that he's associated with anything, including Jews, Virginians, Senators, or Americans.

• Google Shot Down By Belgian Court

  Tue Sep 19, 2006
  • Bad for internet, but great victory for those of us who believe that copyrights should mean something, and that work product should be paid for the same as cars, pigs, and music.

• President Bush and Iraq: Historic Vision or Tactically-Challenged, Oil-Drenched Folly?

  Fri Sep 15, 2006
  • It's hard to find words to desribe Bush/Cheney/Rummy. The damage they've caused to the world is incalcuable. Are they so culturally blind? Historically naive? Blithering idiots? They gave up on the War on Terror (Afghanistan) to preserve dwindling oil reserves 50 years from now??? Amazing.