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• Commentary, Innovation, Media

  We, the People, will believe anything we see

  08.29.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Today I stumbled across a group called The Yes Men who assume the identities of government and corporate officials to communicate specific political messages. This is an interesting phenomena because the general public, so as far as I can tell, will believe anything they read or see on television as the truth, no matter how […]

• Commentary, Ohio State Football

  Five reasons to love college football

  08.27.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  One of my friends asked me the other day “why college football, why not basketball, or pro football?” I thought about it and gave this answer generally (though less articulately since I have a chance to review and edit what I’m writing.) 28,000 – that’s the number of people who attended a practice; not a […]

• Commentary, Travel

  Security Theater

  08.18.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  My daughter is 3 years old. As a 3 year old, she has some irrational fears. Not what you’d think like monsters in the closet or the boogeyman, but fear of car washes. Like most parents, I struggle from time to time on how to get my daughter to listen to me and periodically, I’ll […]

• Commentary, Innovation

  There’s a sucker born every minute

  08.16.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  And there is a Internet site to take their dough. The latest example is WhoToHate.com. What do they do? Send an anonymous mail to the object of your enmity for a fin ($5.) The only good news I can see in this is that the most hated individual on the Top 10 hated is George […]

• Commentary

  Ouch! Grenade salvage gone awry

  08.10.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Ouch! Grenade salvage gone awry

  Tuesday in Brazil, a workman trying to free scrap metal from a rocket propelled grenade managed to kill himself, wound a colleague, and destroy his workshop. The explosion apparently was the result of using a sledgehammer (yes, he was beating on an item intended to a) propel itself at high speed toward a target and […]

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