Month: July 2005

Must hear CD: Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone

If you would really like to bliss out listening to gorgeous music, I have just told you about one of the most amazing CDs to which I have ever listened.  Ennio Morricone has written some of the most amazing and hauntingly...

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SECRET "VOTE REMOTE" SYSTEM EXPOSED

BlackBoxVoting.org has discovered yet more highly disturbing evidence that fair, verifiable elections in the U.S. are being systematically undermined at a national level through coordinated local  activity: *Black Box...

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Renovating Academia, Part IV

One of the pressures on academia these days has come from those parts of the outside population that believe universities could be run in a more business-like fashion.  That is, many people assume that universities should...

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The Undecided Voter and Color Preferences

Does anyone remember this article by Louis Menand, from August 2004? In every Presidential-election year, there are news stories about undecided voters, people who say that they are perplexed about which candidate’s positions...

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Support the Site and Visit Our Store

Visit our store and get our brand new fancy merchandise.  I bought way too much of it.  We have t-shirts and coffee mugs in stock and ready to ship.  Thanks in advance for everyone that helps support the site...

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