Wired quotes Bill Clinton in a recent speech saying, Democratization is the only world view that can survive in this country. It’s very easy advice to give, but it’s very difficult to live that advice. We have to develop a way of thinking about the world that is more consistent with what we want the…
January 30, 2002
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Bill Clinton and other American politicians look rather tame compared to an ongoing sex scandal in Taiwan. Leave it to an Asian country to distribute videotapes of politicians having sex on video CDs inserted in magazines. Lets hope that is one journalistic practice that does not become popular in the United States.
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I do not like boxing — not because of any philosophical objections to two men trying to assault each other in a ring, but rather because I’ve seen so much fake boxing in movies that the real thing is boring (not to mention crooked). But on the other hand, boxers are fun to read about…
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Okay, I thought last night’s State of the Union speech was extraordinarily annoying. George W. Bush is still an extremely awkward speaker, and apparently he thinks the hallmark of a good speech is measured by the number of times the word “evil” appears. He overuses the word to the point where it loses most of…
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Andrew Hofer is the first person I come across to note that the way Enron ran its business was very closely modeled on the way the Social Security Administration runs its ship. Consider, for example, one of the more outrageous deals concocted by Enron to bloat is balance sheet. Enron entered into a deal with…
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NASA wants to your input on what its main objectives should be. My suggestion is that they mount an expedition to Talos 4.