by Kevin Rogers In George Lucas’s Star Wars universe, droids are robots with tasks including translation, computing and repair work. The series’ most famous droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, take on these benign […]
Press overuses anonymous military sources in Phillips' rescue
Many folks like a good shoot-’em-up Tom Clancy novel, filled with supersecret spy stuff, technologically amazing weapons, and daring young men and women outfitted in black with killing gizmos of all kinds. […]
Is Captain Shane Murphy of the Alabama the new Sully?
In their New York Times piece Navy Tracking Pirates and Their U.S. Hostage, Mark Mazzetti and Mark McDonald write: In this case, however, the crew of the Alabama managed to disable the […]
Nota Bene #22
Got hot links if you want ’em! In “Mr. Cool’s Intensity” in the Washington Post, David Ignatius writes of Obama’s reluctance to write off Rev. Wright. There’s “an instinctive American fondness for […]
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