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www.thosenewdomainnames .areforsuckers

Nov 30, 1999
Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don't do it.

Female Suicide Bombers

Nov 30, 1999
Another suicide bombing in Iraq last week. Another female perpetrator. The bomb "killed a pro-American Sunni militia leader, an Iraqi police captain...

Is Edwards Scandal Worse for Obama or McCain?

Nov 30, 1999
Democrats can’t be pleased with John Edwards’ confession that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter. It tarnishes the Democratic brand just as they’re gearing up for their quadrennial coming-out party, and the only thing more conspicu...

The Bauer of Suggestion

Nov 30, 1999
Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution. The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist, international lawyer, or counterinsurgenc...

Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story

Nov 30, 1999
Everybody had a good laugh last August when Roll Call broke the story about Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, getting arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for playing footsies in a toilet stall.

Are cell phone covers, films, and jackets worth the money?

Dec 4, 2009
The thrill of taking a Motorola Droid or iPhone 3GS out of the box comes with a measure of anxiety. This phone, so perfect and so pure—in your clumsy, sweaty hands. How will you keep it safe? What if your precious gets scratched, or scuffed, or...

Corrections from the last week.

Dec 4, 2009
In the Dec. 2, "Supreme Court Dispatches" Dahlia Lithwick misspelled Edwin Kneedler. Supreme Court of the United States - Dahlia Lithwick - United States - Government - Supreme Court

Up In the Air reviewed.

Dec 3, 2009
Less than 48 hours after seeing Up In the Air (Paramount Pictures), I've mentally downgraded it from sparkling to smug. Jason Reitman's third film has the lifespan of a state-fair churro: tasty at the point of consumption, it congeals soon afterward...

Alice reviewed.

Dec 3, 2009
(Notice: In July, the Sci Fi Channel rebranded itself as Syfy. This writer joins the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in boycotting this unsupportable offense against orthography.) Syfy - Arts - Science Fiction and Fantasy - Science...

Does it matter which countries contribute to NATO's Afghanistan contingent?

Dec 3, 2009
Europe will add 5,000 soldiers to its contingent in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced Wednesday. It's not yet clear, however, which European countries will send troops. Georgia, the former Soviet republic, may be the...


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