Tag: politics
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Adversarial versus Agonistic in American Politics
I would like to be able to claim that I was dissapointed with Obama’s acceptance speech from Denver last night, but I wasn’t. It was so mind-numbingly predictable that it met every one of my cynical expectations for a convention acceptance address. Even the dim glimmers of anything that differentiated Obama from previous candidates had…
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Internet Privacy
Talk about big aspriations: Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the entire Internet. Privacy is an interesting issue; I’ve been interested in it since I coached the high school debate topic on it about 9 or 10 years ago. By the way, I think that high school topic was one of the best ones that has…
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Debate/Reality
I do so love it when an old debate case appears in the news cycle! Sonar Ban heads to High Court I of course doubt the court will have as much sympathy for the whales as hundreds of high school policy debaters did. Also, why does it always surprise me when something from debate ends…
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I've Talked about this before. . .
But never on this blog. I’m always pushing Skype. I’m thinking about a full transition to Skype once wi-fi phones become more reliable, and as Wi-Fi networks become more seamless and avaialble. If everyone I wanted to IM with was on Skype, I’d never use anything else. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but…
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