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Why Is It That Automobile Designers Insist on Touchscreens?
Everyone hates them.
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Bill Gates May Be Working on AIDS in Africa, but He’s Screwing the Microsoft Users Who Made Him Rich Enough to Do That.
AIDs, Yes, Upgrades, No.
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When Crudity and Narcissism Takes Over, Led by an American President, We Approach a National Abyss.
When Crudity and Narcissism Takes Over, Led by an American President, We Approach a National Abyss.
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Boeing Feels Pretty Confident, Pretty Soon, That It Will Be Pretty Much Able to Deliver a Pretty Good Aircraft.
That’s not necessarily my take on it, but according to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg.
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Knowing He’s Set to Lose Next Year’s Mid-Term Elections, Trump Fiddles with the Goal-Posts
Fiddling is perhaps too tame a word, but it’s a known fact that if you torture statistics sufficiently, they will confess to anything, and our current…
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New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
I’m an American citizen living abroad in Prague during the last three decades, and have held a passport for over fifty years.
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When I Wasn’t Looking, All Media Became Fox News
Stephen Colbert’s show has been cancelled as of March (I think it’s March) of next year, and Jimmy Kimmel just got the indefinite axe for Charlie Kirk…
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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