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Slammin’ Sammy quoted in D Post story on blogging and academic freedom

The Denver Post has an interesting feature on academic freedom and blogging in today’s Denver & the West section. The genesis for the story was DeVry University’s recent firing of a Westminster, CO instructor for making perceived negative comments about the school in her blog. The reporter interviewed me for the story, and also quotes my good friend (and fellow

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A bit more on latest Pat Robertson dust-up

America’s favorite barking loon, Pat Robertson, says Ariel Sharon is being whacked by God for dividing the Almighty’s Chosen Land. According to today’s news: Leading evangelicals do not agree. Dubya does not agree. Holocaust denying nutjob Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, does agree. Okay, okay, we can make fun of Rev. Pat all we like – and we should –

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Grant on freedom and fear

Jack Grant at The Moderate Voice has a simply marvelous take on freedom and fear and hope and despair and, well, it’s hard to describe. But it’s one of the most essential things I’ve read in awhile. He draws on everybody from Paine to Reagan to Roosevelt to Einstein to Franklin to Pitt (and a bunch more) along the way,

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Gubmint tap on Amanpour?

Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice walks through a maybe breaking story that suggests the government spied on Christiane Amanpour. Interesting read, and something to keep an eye on in case it turns into something. Upon reflection, another possible scenario looks like this: Is it a Rathergatish-style set-up? Inside source tips somebody at NBC, but the tap never happened and

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An ugly tale of political football

Jack Abramoff’s little plea deal, which has GOP power brokers all over DC wetting themselves, represents as solid a chance as the Democratic Party has seen in ages (since Watergate?) to claim some moral high ground. But all of a sudden the question isn’t whether they can successfully capitalize on Republican ethical “lapses,” but whether they’ll be able to keep

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E-mailing with Jack

I’m having an interesting exchange with a friend via e-mail and we’re talking about intelligence and spirituality. I thought I’d edit up some of the exchange and offer it here. We’ll call my friend “Jack.” __________________ Jack: I understand your position here but I’m not sure I agree. People are intelligent in different ways. Me: This is true, although we

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NFL Rushmore

Here’s one for fun. Say you’re going to do a Mt. Rushmore for NFL coaches. What four faces do you carve into the mountain? Seems like Papa Bear George Halas is a given, and the same goes for Lombardi. After that, it gets interesting. Ideas? Walsh and Noll? What about Belichick? Gibbs? Hmmm…..

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Life imitates Gibson

William Gibson is famous enough by now that you’ve probably heard that he coined the term “cyberspace,” and you may even have thought about the evolution of software and GUIs enough to realize what an influence the man’s writing has had on the very design of our computing and Net landscape. These would be remarkable accomplishments regardless of the critical

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The Dropkick Fluties

What a classic moment: Doug Flutie hit the first dropkick since 1941 in yesterday’s game with Miami. I used to practice dropkicking when I was a kid. It’s hard to do with a football, and the idea that somebody could pull it off in a game just rocks. Maybe this will start a trend….

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A Lynott memory, sort of

A guy on a list I sub to notes that it’s been nearly 20 years since the death of Phil Lynott (Jan. 4, 1986), best known as the front man for Thin Lizzy. Odd – I hadn’t realized this, but I was thinking about Lynott last night – we were watching A Knight’s Tale, and the scene where they arrive

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