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Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:29 PM
Original article: Number of the Day

...and what about Edwards?

Come on, if you're going to bother to report how Senators Biden, Clinton, and Obama voted on an issue -- assuming because they're presidential candidates -- then at least do the justice of including Edwards in the mix!

Friday, September 21, 2007 02:09 PM

Boston's police officers need a lesson on electronics and common sense

Let's not forget that Boston happens to be the only city that panicked when an artist set up flashing signs promoting a cartoon show along the freeways. Every other city that was the target of that promotion shrugged off the prank.

Is the law enforcement in that city overly paranoid, or simply dumb?

Even TSA officers have the good sense to simply ask the bearer of a suspicious electronic device to demonstrate it before declaring a bomb scare...

Monday, April 7, 2008 09:39 AM

This biased and baseless argument does not belong on Salon.com

As an avid reader of and premium subscriber to Salon, I'm appalled that this article was published at all, much less featured on the front page. The lack of sound logic and reasoning regarding the primary process is as breathtaking as Hillary's embellishment regarding her trip to Bosnia under sniper fire.

Unfairly portioned primaries were largely responsible for the 1984 disaster that favored Walter Mondale over Gary Hart. Any fair system would be based on popular vote alone -- and guess who wins if that were to be the case?

It should be well known that Sean Wilentz has a strong pro-Hillary bias, as noted in his opinion columns in Newsweek and the LA Times. His bias shows quite prominently in this article.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:27 PM

This was a poor amendment that should have failed

Read the full text of the story before you criticize it.

This was a poor amendment that would have been a huge giveaway to providers and increased medical costs. Why should the public option be compelled to pay 5% more than Medicare?

Let's hope that Schumer's public option amendment, which will better contain costs, passes.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 06:56 AM
Original article: Why Dilbert is doomed

Dilbert is doing very nicely, thank you

After reading this article, I get the sense that the author doesn't have a clue about the Dilbert comic strip. Dilbert is an engineer, not an autonomous data processor.

Remember 10 years ago when many people predicted that most of the skilled IT and engineering design jobs would be off-shored, reducing demand and salary overall? Well, that didn't happen. The jobs that went overseas were the less-skilled and more labor intensive service positions. Highly skilled design jobs are thriving here in the U.S. For example, Apple Computer may manufacture their computers, phones, and iPods in China, but they were all designed in Cupertino, along with their operating systems and applications software.

A great deal of design innovation still occurs right here, and will continue to do so for years to come.

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