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Vista blues: “In my view, we lost our way,” Vista’s manager, Jim Allchin, wrote in an e-mail (later posted online) to Microsoft founder Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer. “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.” Ouch.

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Well, whaddya know? I am: Robert A. Heinlein Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. Which science fiction writer are you? (But…I thought I was Gene Wolfe…or James Blish…)

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Charles Krauthammer: There is no free lunch. Producing energy is going to produce waste. You pick your poison and you find a way to manage it. Want to do something about global warming? How many global warming activists are willing to say the word nuclear? He nails it, as usual.

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One of the reasons I can’t get that worked up about so-called militant atheism is because I believe its major proponents are whistling past the graveyard. There is a threat out there…and it could destroy our way of life. But it isn’t religious fundamentalism. As Victor Davis Hanson points out, it’s something that should be… Continue reading