Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Shoot, darn it straight to heck!Sad that Internet filters, obsolete television codes, and neo-prudishness have made "frak" and "what the F" both common and inanely neo-50s to my ear. It's actually kind of amusing to see young would-be rebels claiming their linguistic niche with such hollow-referenced language. Is this the ( Read more... )

Take one technology: GPS tracking of children via special mobile phone units.

Initial positions in 2006 were, the Beebs on skepticism with social and psychological concerns, and NPR on somewhat similar concerns, perhaps less clearly expressed ( Read more... )

1. To the US Senate, all I can say is Bollazo! Bollazo!

2. In a reprise of (Wrath of) Khan's final moments, Castro spits in the eye of the Bush administration, arguing that biofuels initiatives threaten global starvation. On the whole, I think it's a slightly odd tack to take, since Cuba seems to have done alright by its own self-sufficiency ( Read more... )