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  • Feat of Clay

    (Photo by Lei Yixin) A clay model of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial statue that is proposed for the Mall. Related article . . . Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Hillary was right!

    Open hearts and minds: The good people of West Virginia In other words: You elites look down on us white people, thinking you’re better than us, thinking, like, just because we didn’t go to no college, you can put a black man over us. Well, ain’t you precious. All I got is my vote and…

  • (A)n ex-parrot?

    This is a cruel, cruel and sad story. Usually, I would quote the beginning of a story. In this case, I will quote the end and you, dear readers, will have to follow the link to the Washington Post to figure out how it all started. Customer: “He’s not pining! He’s passed on! This parrot…

  • War for the Worlds

    BlackBerry Bold takes on 3G iPhone: New models go head-to-head, says analyst by Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com, 13 May 2008 The 3G version of Apple’s iPhone could be set for a showdown with the new BlackBerry handset, according to one industry analyst. Rob Enderle, founder and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said that…

  • How it's done

    An assistant professor of business law at Michigan Technological University’s School of Business and Economics, Houghton, Mich., and a clinical professor of technology industry management at the Kellogg Center for Research in Technology and Innovation at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., embarked on trying to crack one of Apple Computers code. They wanted to find out…

  • Just the way it is

    Truth or satire? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Obama's values

    I have a couple of reaction to this piece that ran in the Wall Street Journal yesterday: 1). It’s a load of crap 2). The writer is probably right. This is what the general election is going to be about. Obama and the Values Question Mark By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN, May 12, 2008 With the…

  • Hillary's agony

    Is She a Trojan Rabbit? By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 11, 2008 If Hillary Clinton were to become Barack Obama’s vice president, would she take the back seat or would she just always be plotting, draining him of his magical powers? My own two cents, not Ms. Dowd’s? Yes, she will. Hillary, if…

  • Road to oblivion

    Party Like It’s 2008 By FRANK RICH, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 11, 2008 ANOTHER weekly do-or-die primary battle, another round of wildly predicted “game changers” that collapsed in the locker room. Hillary Clinton’s attempt to impersonate a Nascar-lovin’, gun-totin’, economist-bashin’ populist went bust: Asked which candidate most “shares your values,” voters in both North Carolina…

  • What we sow

    Seeds of Destruction By BOB HERBERT, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 10, 2008 The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans, white Americans,” and…