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Day: June 30, 2010

‘You Are Not a Gadget’

30 June 2010

George Rebane Thus argues secular humanist author, musician, and self-educated techie Jaron Lanier. His cleverly titled book came out earlier this year, and I received it as a birthday present from old friends in soCal who are of a similar philosophical vein. The book is a fascinating cobble of various articles and pieces Lanier has written…
Why doesn’t this go away?

30 June 2010

George Rebane The media calls people ‘Birthers’ who are in doubt as to Barack Obama’s place of birth. The official White House story is that our President was born in Honolulu on 4 August 1961. For the country this statement rests on evidence reported in media sources like USA Today (here). Yet no previous US…