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Relevance: 17% Posted on: February 28, 2012
Wikipedia surprised a lot of people, changed a lot of minds: Online collaboration can accomplish great things. Following Wikipedia, other interactive, collaborative, not-quite-commercial Web-based projects have offered more evidence that the Internet can transform everyday life. Take Kickstarter.com. It’s really ramped up to something impressive, as Carl Franzen points out…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: July 1, 2013
Gone are the happy-go-lucky days of buying water and then going home as though it were no big deal. Elizabeth Daly learned the hard way. As she and her roommates walked toward her car in a dark parking lot, she was accosted by a crew of Virginia state Alcohol Beverage…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: April 9, 2012
Thank goodness the CIA didn’t investigate my preschool drawings. I went wild with pencil and pen, drawing such mayhem that surely my parents should have been hauled into a klieg-lit interrogation room. But they weren’t. Such dystopian dynamics had to wait a few decades and befall 4-year-old Nevaeh Sansone and…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 5, 2021
We have gone on beyond nonsense. Theodore Geisel — Dr. Seuss — whimsically drew and rhymed his way into our hearts. But owners of his copyrights and trademarks have announced that they will no longer keep in print a handful of Seussiana, including And to Think That I Saw It…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 20, 2016
Another terrorist event. And another. Douglas A. French, of the National Review, while writing about Islam and terrorism, innocently drew up a half-truth: “In Saint Cloud, Minn., Dahir Adan’s family identified him as the man who stabbed eight people in a mall before being shot and killed by an armed…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: August 30, 2021
“It’s one thing to let people post UFO content about crop circles in Arkansas,” Ciaran O’Connor was quoted in a recent Washington Post article, talking about YouTube competitor Rumble. “It’s another to allow your platform to be used by someone claiming vaccines are actively harmful and that people should not…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: January 3, 2017
Consider the intersection of freedom and decontextualized fragments. The specific “decontextualized fragments” in question appear in great and not-so-great works of literature, assigned in public schools for young adults to read: a graphic rape scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved; racial slurs in Huckleberry Finn; sex, violence. “Virginia regulators are drafting…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: August 26, 2015
“One thing that we’ve done,” Dennis McBride of Support our Schools-Wauwatosa told a crowd at a free event hosted by the non-profit Wisconsin Public Education Network, “is we’ve made sure every time one of our legislators pops up his or her head above the foxhole, we’re there to shoot at…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: May 18, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pardoning mask and social-distancing scofflaws. He says the pandemic mitigation rules amount to overreach. “These things with health should be advisory, they should not be punitive.” I agree. But could he (and other governors) do more to help non-criminals? At Reason.com, Billy Binion argues that…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: June 2, 2022
A prominent rating system has gone “woke.” “Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500,” Elon Musk tweeted a few weeks ago, “while Tesla” — the billionaire’s high-end electric car company — “didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It…