Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming. – Dr. Ian Malcolm Mary Shelley spent the summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake […]
My god – it's full of stars: 2001, Frankenstein and autonomous technology
I used to work with a HAL 9000. Back when I was at US West in the late ’90s we had a voice system into which we would record the day’s company […]
Secession and other simple solutions to complex problems…
There was an interesting meeting last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee – a meeting of groups hoping to secede from the United States. Ah, you think. Secessionists. Chattanooga. Must be crazy Confederate apologists […]
Staking out the (astro)turf in battles over electronic voting
By Martin Bosworth Earlier this month, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a self-proclaimed “nonpartisan think tank,” released a policy statement opposing the usage of paper audit trails for electronic voting […]
Ave Maria: the Holy City of Domino’s Pizza and Christian Soldiers
By Martin Bosworth This week saw the first public tours of Ave Maria, the combination Catholic university/planned community envisioned by Thomas Monaghan, the former Domino’s Pizza magnate turned fervent facilitator of a […]
Is Barack Obama too likable to be President?
By Martin Bosworth MyDD’s Todd Beeton explored this question in the wake of Obama’s response to the Libby commutation as an example of the “old politics” he wants to dispense with, and […]
Mike Gravel/Ron Paul 2008: don’t settle for the lesser insane
By Martin Bosworth I’ve decided that no matter what we do in 2008, we’re going to end up electing someone who’s going to end up making a lot of crazy decisions and […]
The Fall Of The House Of Bubble
By Martin Bosworth As is often the case when crimes go bad, the crooks are quick to point the finger at each other to escape culpability, and the collapse of the housing […]
The consumer culture of self-containment
By Martin Bosworth Matt Zoller Seitz yesterday linked to Boston University professor Ray Carney’s voluminous film and media Web site, who in turn had posted an excerpted essay from Mark Edmundson’s “Why […]
Tyranny of the banal
By Martin Bosworth A few days ago, my esteemed fellow roguish scholar Mike commented eloquently on the double-plus goodspeak of Monica Goodling.
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