iPhone or Blackberry?

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Ezra:My contract with Verizon is up. I want a phone able to do e-mail and internet. Do I go with Cingular and the iPhone2? Stick with Verizon -- whose phone service I like! -- and get a Blackberry? Is there some other smartphone I should be...

Evolution of the Cylon

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Andrew Probert, designer of the Cylons for the first Battlestar Galactica series:“Originally the Galactica motion picture (for overseas distribution) was filmed with dialog explaining that the Cylons were creatures,” Probert.

False Equivalences

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As one would expect, Stuart Taylor's article about the campaigns is a masterpiece of false equivalence, using such tricks as balancing lies and smears from John McCain's campaign with stupid articles in the New York Times that the Obama campaign had nothing to do with. He...

An Argument About Nothing

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On September 19, 2008

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On the issue of the citation of foreign law in United States Supreme Court opinions, I think this is the key passage in Adam Liptak's recent article:The controversy over the.

Impetus For An Amendment?

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Yglesias, commenting on the stupid rule for resolving electoral college ties, notes that "there’s no good reason to wait until after something stupid happens to pass a constitutional amendment to.

There’s A Lot of Incomptence There

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Dave Cameron asserts that the Bedard-for-pretty-much-every-decent-prospect-the-Mariners-have-recently-produced deal is "[i]n terms of results...easily the worst trade in franchise history." As stated, I think this is clearly wrong. Jones had a pretty.

The end of the affair

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Shorter Elizabeth Drew:Me and John McCainWe had a thingGoin' onDrew becomes the latest in the increasingly long line of journalists to walk out on the news media's longest-running illicit love affair.And given how long the affair lasted, it's not surprised that amid all the hurt and...
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Thursday Frigate Blogging

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Meet SPS Almirante Juan de Bourbon. She is 6200 ton AEGIS frigate (more of a destroyer, really), capable of 29 knots and armed with SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles, Harpoon surface-to-surface.

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