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Category Archives: Rod Serling
The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor—By Ken Silverstein (Harper’s Magazine)
Miller recommended cobalt, which absorbs neutrons but does not itself become fissionable. ‘Reactors get hot, it’s just a fact,’ Miller, a nervous, skinny twenty-two-year-old, said during an interview at a Burger King in Clinton Township where he worked as a … Continue reading
Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty | Mother Jones
Mother Jones commiserates with a defeated House Candidate, who’s a Republican with a lifetime 93 conservative rating. Strange bedfellows indeed. “They say, ‘Bob, what don’t you get? Barack Obama is a socialist, communist Marxist who wants to destroy the American … Continue reading
Goldman Sachs Bans Naughty Words in Emails – WSJ.com
In the spirit of the times, there is no written directive specifying which curses now are officially cursed. Gosh. Gee whiz. Golly. Holy cow! Presto chango, all you traders are now alter boys and little miss perfects. And, since we … Continue reading
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Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
Except for a brief stint helping to set the stage for the California electric deregulation debacle, I spent my entire legal career in, but not of, the worlds described by Michael Lewis in this pair of nonfiction financial thrillers that … Continue reading
ah, ah, ah, stutter, stutter, no!
I’ve read to page 121 of Roger Lowenstein’s new book: We are in the midst of the meltdown, at the part where events have begun to move from merely critical to life threatening. A bunch of the CEOs are huddled … Continue reading
Ann Coulter went home : Macleans OnCampus
‘We came together because we’re angry about the fact that Ann Coulter’s views risked being exposed on our campus,’ said University of Ottawa student Mike Fancie.’ Those touchy Canadians come roaring out of their hinterlands to harass the Bad Girl … Continue reading
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Metro – Internet deserves peace prize nod, professor says
Accepting, on behalf of the Internet, is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, its original sponsor. DARPA’s mission is to maintain technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security. We also create technological … Continue reading
Weaponizing Mozart – Reason Magazine
classical music is not a wonder of the human world, it’s a repellent against mildly anti-social behavior