Globally Rational

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//Many of you may have heard that President Bush recently stated that he has stopped playing golf in solidarity for the soldiers in Iraq. His rationale:
I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — […]

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//Sunday Rewind is a new feature where I re-publish an old post that I first put up back when nobody was actually reading.  Hopefully, there will be some actual readership this time.
I came across an interesting article today. In short, it is about a study proving that the world’s most incompetent people are typically unaware […]

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//Stephen Hadley, President Bush’s main security adviser (and the man in charge of planning his trip to China for the Olympics), apparently doesn’t know the difference between Nepal and Tibet.  I recently wrote an article about this on Rational Outrage, an excellent webzine that you should bookmark; click here to see it.
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//One of my favorite America social issues are the two big questions we make sure to file away from time to time. They are:
1 - Why did we elect Bush?
And
2 - Why did we re-elect Bush?
1 - Al Gore was like our best friend’s dad. A nice guy you didn’t want to sit […]

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//In a campaign full of pointless buzzwords and endless political maneuvering, I was not surprised to read that Hillary Clinton is now telling her supporters to “turn off the TV.” Her suggestion was, as one would expect, met with applause… probably because the audience chose to listen to the power and intonation of her voice […]

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//This is the first post in the “Nominal Breakthroughs” series, which will talk about news that is farcically touted as groundbreaking.
The fight against political corruption is one of the most important tasks confronting many of today’s developing countries; for instance, many leaders have stolen billions of dollars (which is worth a lot more in Africa/Asia […]

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//You can count on the Japanese to top the British GPS-based radio show that I wrote about in the first installment of “Digital Dogtags” (click here to see it).
The Tokyo-based Fujitaka Company is seeking approval for a new system which will determine a person’s age from a digital photograph.  The system approximates your age (at […]

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//Isn’t it about time that we stop getting angry at people for stating the obvious?
After “Bittergate,” I think I might have lost hope in our ability to ever recover from our tendency to make a big deal every time somebody says something rational that might just be politically incorrect.  Recently, the popular political blog Crooks […]

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//Not Bush or McCain (not by a longshot), but Rush Limbaugh.
Recently, 235 right-leaning bloggers voted on the 25 most influential conservatives in US politics. The rankings are interesting:
#25) Mark Levin: 6 votes
#21) Hugh Hewitt: 7
#21) George Will: 7
#21) John Roberts: 7
#21) Ronald Reagan: 7
#20) Victor David Hanson: 8
#19) Antonin Scalia: 9
#18) John McCain: 10
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//Many of my friends are young/uneducated enough so that they still work (miserably) at fast food restaurants or other low-paying unrewarding locations. But today, after reading that yet another top-ranking al Qaeda official has been arrested, I think I’ve decided what the world’s worst job is.
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