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Her Majesty the Queen of Impressions Returns to the Boob Tube
Back in the glory days when the Simpsons first aired, I remember watching The Tracey Ullman Show afterwards, characterized by her zany characterizations that I was probably too young to fully appreciate. She’s back, but this time on premium cable, and last night premiered her [...]

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Is this any way to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday?
We are appalled with Congress. In a huge victory for the Bush Administration, the Senate passed the revised FISA bill to grant sweeping government spying powers and shield the telecoms, especially AT&T and Verizon, from the legal action they deserve for breaking laws to build a universal [...]

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We enjoy a free and open society and promote it to the world as the model of existence.
We look to China as a totalitarian police-state undergoing hyper-capitalism.
We know that China’s internet is filtered by the Great Firewall of China, an intricate, secretive and semi-effective internet censorship system.
As a guest-professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, I [...]

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Sporting provocative bullet points, this essay may not be new news, but it speaks refreshing truths while standing the test of time.
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This scholarly paper by was originally presented as a talk for the conference Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects, held on April 29-30, 2003 in Budapest, and is collected in Mobile [...]

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