News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, August 2, 2011
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
~Henry David Thoreau
Love, friendship and respect do not...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 1, 2011
How did the Debt get so big? How did it become so famous? And what are its future plans? I sat down with the National Debt last week to see if I could find some answers.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
~Thomas Jefferson
So here we are,...
Would the real Bill Maher please stand up? Who is he? I want to know. Is he a comedian or a political pundit? Is...
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B. F. Skinner
The year is 2110. IBM has just completed work on the...
Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.
People are living longer. Just look at the number of ex-Presidents we have living yet. There are four, and I can’t remember when so...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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