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You've missed my point entirely. The OP is playing a game by defining arts (clown mask on) to be all of the entertainment industry (and citing that size in the headline) while supp…

The US has 338M people and they are claiming $763B PER YEAR for art. That's $2257 PER YEAR for every man, woman, and newborn infant in America. Total BS. Even if you include music …

Of particular concern to some was the use of Palantir as a tool that could aid investigators both in connecting suspected gang members to others in the community, and in identifyin…

Australians and Brazilians: your bits are upside down. Try flipping them over and then running the tests again.

Thank you so much for reminding me of his writing. I fell in love with a Greek woman on Crete many years ago. It was one of the most painful times of my life when I realized that I…

> be the singing-masters of my soul Those have to be seven of the most powerful words ever written in any language.

Reading this, I couldn't help thinking of an observation P.J. O'Rourke made after visiting the DDR ("East Germany"): "It takes a special kind of economic system to turn a nation fu…

> Alito concurring...That's very interesting language coming from conservative Chief Justice Roberts. Your implication seems to be that conservatives are the ones pushing weak priv…

> Rest in peace. I, on the other hand, hope that the three men that Marquez's close friend Castro had executed for trying to get to the US on a boat will rest in peace. Not to ment…

>> ideas like this are incredibly common in not-so-rural places like in the US. I've never heard of this happening in the US at all, never mind being "incredibly common". Evidence?…

Heidegger ... was member of the Nazi party throughout the war, in good standing at the beginning and bad standing at the end, but he never rebelled or retracted publicly -- complic…

>> Unfortunately, in the day of Fox News, being an informed populace is even becoming difficult. Equality doesn't just mean that everybody has the same wealth, regardless of how ha…

I'll have to stop by and say hello. I believe the correct expression is "grab coffee".

From 2009-2012, these tax receipts were around 15% of GDP. Total US government receipts in 2013 are projected to be $5.56 trillion. US GDP for the same period is projected at $16.3…

Three glowing mentions of Obama in the first four paragraphs, plus one more further down, in an article about 3D printers. Oh, praise his name!

Ummm, what irony? 1) The article doesn't say that Thomas used the word. 2) The word is hardly a "ten-dollar" word, since many foreign imports are standard usage ("gung-ho" is Canto…

>> It feels as if western state-assisted assassinations of civilians are becoming a more frequently documented reality And when were they documented the first time? It's much more …

>> Sounds like a classic case of corporate murder. No, it sounds like a case of Chinese government murder, something they have plenty of experience with. They must have known that …

So, Facebook invites Obama to their HQ to give a "townhall", then many of their execs contribute heavily to his campaign, and then Solyndra, er, Facebook gets a massive tax break. …

I hardly think you will find MSNBC by poking... NYT reporters or Christian Science Monitor reporters (not to mention al-Jazeera, BBC, RT, etc.) I assume this is a joke, particularl…

And they DO have to... if not, then the press coverage will increase until reporters demand an answer on their own. No, the media coverage will the same as it has always been since…

Picking Rand at her youthful (23 y.o.) worst seems hardly fair. The young Rand was very much under the influence of (what she took to be) Nietzsche's thought. (Much of Rand at the …

to see Obama's face on Time (or was it Newweek?) That's what I love about living in America rather than North Korea: we don't have a news media working in lockstep to proclaim the …