Author: BooMan

Immutable Laws in American Politics

Frank Schaeffer is shrill, but I take his main point. I have often felt the same way. Yet, I have two problems with his diatribe. First, when you present the way the president has been treated as a figurative lynching, you...

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How to Judge the Red/Blue Divide

Dan Balz has a nice article up at the Washington Post that takes a look at the difference between states that are governed by a Republican governor and legislature, and states that are governed by a Democratic governor and...

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Odds & Ends

Distractify has a cool article up on the 38 most haunting abandoned places on Earth. They’ve found some spooky and strange stuff. For an above-ground bunker, this is pretty good, but I wouldn’t go with grey. Who...

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On Bitcoins and Neuromorphic Chips

A New York Times article on advances in neuromorphic processors piqued my interest and I wound up wanting to learn more about them. I found some very interesting articles in Go Parallel, the Technology Review, and Gizmag. The...

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Please Proceed, Republicans

Well, lookee here: Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or...

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