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The South African Government Has Relinquished its Monopoly on
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (38+ words) As the South African state starts losing its monopoly on violence security is enclavising....
AI and the Electricity Grid: A Stress Test Showing the Cracks
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (655+ words) Artificial intelligence just handed America a warning about its electric grid. We should be grateful for it. For 20 years, electricity demand stayed roughly flat. Policymakers pushed utilities toward wind and solar while sidelining coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants, the…...
The Investigations of Detective Dietrich
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (270+ words) I was a fan of the sitcom Barney Miller. My favorite character was Detective Arthur Dietrich, who was played by Steve Landesberg. What I remember were his very dry comments delivered in a deadpan, monotone. (see Best of Dietrich) Steve…...
Why We Still Need Dating Etiquette
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (200+ words) LuElla D’Amico is an associate professor of English and coordinator of women’s and gender studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the author of Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature and writes widely on…...
The Maywood Academy High School Melee, Eight Years Later
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (665+ words) [Editor's note: a video linked to this story contains profane language and fighting.] Social media is flooded with confrontation videos: high school kids fighting each other, grown men beating each other up in parking lots and shopping malls, and event…...
We're Living in a Tragicomic Parody
1+ week, 2+ day ago (549+ words) It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of…...
The Clancy Trial: When Mental Illness, Medication and Unspeakable Loss Collide
1+ week, 4+ day ago (407+ words) The trial of Lindsay Clancy forces us to confront a tragedy almost beyond human comprehension: A mother killed her three young children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — inside their Massachusetts home. That distinction is difficult but essential. Mental…...
Analysis by ChatGPT AI Concludes the Top Levels of the U.S. Government Are 'Profoundly Corrupt."
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1601+ words) Today, I had this conversation with ChatGPT: “IS THERE ANY RELIABLE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE MEASURE OF THE AMOUNT OF GOVERNMENTAL CORRUPTNESS IN U.S., OR RUSSIA, OR CHINA, OR INDIA, OR GERMANY (OR EU)?” For the particular comparison you have in mind…...
Has the First Amendment Ever Been More Relevant?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (135+ words) Sarah Isgur and David French pick through a trail mix of topics for this week’s episode. The two discuss bracelet-wearing parents at a soccer game, student visas being revoked over bad speech, and classified information being printed. But they kick…...
Whatever Happened to 'When in Rome'?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1164+ words) When visiting a new place, one should follow local rules and customs. Hence the old axiom, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Apparently, in modern Britain, that requires a nine-page government instruction manual. It begins by acknowledging the…...