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Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and host of PBS’ “Foreign Exchange”, had a great article up on the Newsweek site a few weeks ago. In his piece, “How Long Will America Lead the World?”, he makes references to previous empires as well as current economic conditions in the U.S.
In most articles like this that [...]

So I mentioned a few days ago that I didn’t watch George W.’s State of the Union this year. But I was still very interested in it. So I pulled down the text of the speech and had a read. There were a few things in there that annoyed me, as usual, and a [...]

I’m completely thrashing at work again, and today my IT department got upset at me for accessing our corporate network from a personal machine at home. Argh! I’m just trying to maximize the amount of work I get done by absolutely having no life during the week – is there something wrong with that? [...]

Lately politics has been really frustrating me. I still listen to a lot of CNN, CSPAN, NPR – probably more than is actually healthy for me. Fortunately, The Daily Show provides a welcome respite. But the rest of them… almost always seem like a complete waste of time when I think about what [...]

Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, and his acceptance speech was quite a doozy. Made big news in the UK apparently, but of course here in the US it barely produced a whimper. I think I heard a bit of it on Democracy Now, that was about it.
Anyway, it’s long, [...]