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Obama and Hilton: Not Hot

Paris Hilton and Barack Obama?s relationship: something that doesn?t get a?that?s hot? from the celebutante. After John McCain?s camp ran an attack ad associating Obama with Hilton, FoxNews.com...

AGW: Short on science, long on religion

His name is James A. Peden, he’s the Editor of the Middlebury Community Network. He also spent some of his earlier years as an Atmospheric Physicist at the Space Research and Coordination...

Hillary Clinton As Bush In A Pantsuit

This is the kind of thing Bush always does. Dismiss the experts, put down people with intelligence and expertise, deride them and ignore them in favor of short term policies with slightly populist...

How Do People Find The Time To Watch Television?

One of the most common reactions when people first learn about Wikipedia is to wonder where people find the time to write millions of articles for free. That's precisely the reaction Clay Shirky got...

The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition

We are in the early stages of a major phase transition. Whatever you call it, something new is brewing, and that nasty R word has a lot do with it. It is not the semantic web. That is a part of it, a...

What's the problem with Kirkpatrick?

I attended a session at the CIPD's HRD 2008 show in London last week entitled The Value of Learning. The session was presented by the CIPD's Martyn Sloman, John Castledine from Pfizer and Ian...

Olympic Censorship

In the wake of the trashing of China’s Olympic Torch Rally the Olympic Movement’s elite are themselves twisting like so many kebabs on a spit as they seek to be all things to all men.Take this piece...

Bigotry

I have been caring for my elderly and ill mother for the past week. During that time, I have engaged in political and philosophical debate with my brother and sister, both of whom are staunch...

THANK DICK!

On Millman’s article: vanwahlgren wrote: We in the midwest want to homeschool because the mainstream media pushes abortion and homosexuality. They are against Prayer, when ours is a christian...

Oscar Night in Hollywood

"The point is not whether there are bad motion pictures or even whether the average motion picture is bad, but whether the motion picture is an artistic medium of sufficient dignity and...