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Monday, December 15, 2003  

 
Is there ever a right place for discrimination and profiling? In a time of less racial tension, it'd be called personal preference and connoisseurship.

How much did Ted Koppel suck at last week's Democratic presidential debate? So much that he blows. Suckin' it long, suckin' it hard.

The guy who wrote the lyrics to "Unchained Melody" grew up in upstate New York, but now lives in Freehold, New Jersey.

Paul Krugman almost always has something interesting to say. Today he weighs in on war profiteering in Iraq by the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel.

Britain's Tories concede. Privatizing the railways was an exceedingly bad idea.

Hmm... this is interesting. I haven't studied the Coase theorem since Microeconomics in sophomore year, but a former Clintonista predicts, using Coase, that a third-party candidate will win the presidency in the very near future.

Virility is something Asian guys usually don't joke about. Are we finally gonna see some Asian men gettin' some respect on film and TV?

Here's a holiday shopping list parents can finally live with. No more noisy, jingly, electronic gadget fads. Get the kids stuff from the dollar store, dammit.

Lacking any other crime to charge James Yee with, the military is trumping up a supposed affair he had with a female officer. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Mary Robinson, having recently left her post as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is well on her way to creating a "kinder, gentler" globalization.

Barely legal in China is basically political speech that you can get away with. Nicholas Kristof explains, and predicts major upheaval in the Middle Kingdom soon.

The economies of India and China are like a tortoise and hare story. Dengist China grew by leaps and bounds, but it may be India that achieves sustainable growth in the long run.

 
posted by WL | 12/15/2003 09:31:00 PM
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