The Pope and our President seem to agree: gay marriage is immoral and thus should be illegal. (In all fairness, conservative Jews and Muslims share this point of view, but I’ll stick to current events for now). They also agree that safe sex is a bad thing…. unless by that you mean “no sex,” in […]
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different.” I took the Eurostar from Paris to London this past weekend. The Eurostar is effectively a French TGV that crosses from the French rail system to the British one via a 120km tunnel. On the French side, the train is the fastest […]
Today, the French banned the word ’email’. First, an explanation. Jean Dupont on the street will not get thrown in jail just for saying “I sent mon amour a leetle email.” This is an attempt to affect human behavior not through threat of criminal penalty, but through government normative pressure. The French government and all […]
Harvard students and 15 year-olds are blogging away. 580,000 blogs are indexed and ranked. Salon has blogs. So here I am. Talk about being late to the party. It’ll take me a few weeks to get the hang of the blogging world from the publisher end, though I certainly expect to touch on the following: […]
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