Reality and its Liberal Bias

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August 7, 2011
Reality and its Liberal Bias

One can be forgiven for snorting with a bit of derision at Standard & Poor’s decision to take a notch out of the USA’s credit rating by lowering it from AAA to AA+. These are, after all, the morons who rated the credit default swaps of the 2000′s as investment grade and look where...
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DMR Blog: Time for the Cairo Option?

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July 30, 2011
DMR Blog: Time for the Cairo Option?

This post was written for the Des Moines Register Political Opinion Page. Yeah, so three months and no posts. I don’t have much to offer in the way of an excuse really. Work has certainly been a factor. But more than anything it has been a combination of a numb depression at the direction...
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Best Use of Public Arts Money Evar.

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July 9, 2011
Best Use of Public Arts Money Evar.


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Parsing Clinton Census Data

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December 20, 2010

The New York Times has posted an interactive map of the 2010 Census data that encompasses every census...
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Lawrence of Arabia’s “Original Sin” in the Mideast.

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November 20, 2010

This complicated person is largely responsible for both the fundamentals of modern of guerrilla warfare as we see it...
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Friday Music: Futurebirds

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November 19, 2010

Futurebirds are from Athens, GA. Saw these guys at up at Codfish Hollow in the Biehl’s basement on Tuesday...
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Carthago Delenda Est

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October 25, 2010

From the Des Moines Register Politics Blog: “Carthage Must Be Destroyed.” During the Third Punic War, the Roman statesman,...
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Clinton

Clinton Core City Area Projected onto Chicago

The Challenges of a Shrinking City

I’ll expand on this later but in the meantime, there is a public forum today at the Eagle Point Lodge on the future of planning in the City of Clinton. There will be a number of breakout sessions and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Begins at 4:30. More in the Herald....

Technology

Could the iPhone be Made In USA? Could the iPhone be Made In USA?

One of the best technology reads last week was a New York Times’ big...

Doctorow: The Coming War on General Computing Doctorow: The Coming War on General Computing

In a perfect world, this talk by noted author and electronic liberty activist, Cory...

Whither Microsoft? Whither Microsoft?

The irrepressible, outspoken Barry Ritholtz has a quick post today regarding whether or not...

Why Information Security (And Security In General) Sucks Why Information Security (And Security In General) Sucks

He also makes what I think is a critical point about how 9/11 changed...


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