Steven Johnson of Slate on The Best Search Idea Since Google: How Amazon can make money from books you already own. Amazon.com's announcement this week of its new "search inside" […]
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
Cooking, Old School
CBC News on Researchers dig up earliest 'butcher shop' Anthropologists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest direct evidence of a stone tool "kitchen," dating back 2.6 million years. […]
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Fascist Shoutout
Russell Madden on You Might Be a Fascist . . . nod in agreement that individuals must show proof of identity in order to open a bank account because otherwise […]
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Draft Boards???!!
BBC News on US raises spectre of conscription: The American defence department has begun a recruitment drive for local draft boards, raising questions about a possible revival of conscription. A […]
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More on Iraq From Dr. Eland
Dr. Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Is Iraq Another Vietnam? As the insurgency in Iraq gets bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly, the hawks are falling all over […]
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DMOZ Reorganization
For those who've been reading this weblog for a while, you're aware that in addition to this blog and my publications, I also edit a few sections of the Online […]
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Ben Franklin and Daylight Savings Time
Danny Heitman on Can the break of day be negotiated? As Daylight Saving Time concludes this weekend, many Americans will roll back their clocks and grab an extra hour of […]
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Kenai Says No To Repeal of Bill of Rights
Sara B. Miller and Seth Stern of The Christian Science Monitor on Odd bedfellows fall in line Residents of Kenai, Alaska, usually worry more about the number of king salmon […]
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Time To Go
Dr. Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Cut Losses: Leave Iraq The brazen missile attack on the Rashid hotel in Baghdad and a recent spate of suicide bombings illustrate […]
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Bilingual/Bicultural Development Research
For those interested in participating, I’ve received the following research announcement: My name is Amy Snyder Ohta and I am an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages & […]
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