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Category Archives: General

The Patience Problem

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 1:45 pm

The election is over. The campaign was the easy part. Gary Kasparov’s new editorial, though, underscores the biggest problem our freshly-minted President will have to face. It’s not the economy, or the war, or terrorism, or taxes, or the deficit; these all look simple when compared with the real problem. The shortage of patience.

Best Election Blog Entry

Filed under: General— arlen@ 12:20 pm

…I’ve ever read: Build Anything There’s a reason that man’s in my blogroll, after all.

Speaking Too Soon

Filed under: General,Religion— arlen@ 11:35 am

Just a few weeks after Time magazine writes about Exposing the “Jesus’ Brother” Hoax we get treated to this: the trial judge in the alleged forgery case recommended the prosecution, um, “reassess its position.” (Jerusalem Post / San Francisco Chronicle) What both of these stories omit is that one of the “experts” who claimed “the […]

A Tale of Two Cities

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 10:11 am

OK, the election is upon us. It’s the only time our government is required by law to listen to us, yet so few of us take advantage of it. One reason may be the success of negative campaign ads. According to the latest numbers from the University of Wisconsin’s Advertising Project (and injecting my own […]

Lessons Learned

Filed under: General— arlen@ 11:54 pm

Sorry about the delay. I’ve been working, and learning. I think as much or more of the latter as the former. What’s going on? In no particular order: Andy Clarke tipped me to a huge improvement over opacity, RGBa. He got it from Dan Cederholm (who, BTW, quotes Wilson Miner on a “crafty” use for […]

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