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The Long View 2006-06-12: Annoying Meteors; Mad Cows in America; Reprimitivization; Haditha; All the Past Before Us

Prion diseases like BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) aren't as well understood as some other infections, in part because their causes are hard to study. As it turned out, it was CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) that killed John J. Reilly. Annoying Meteors; Mad Cows in America; Reprimitivization; Haditha; All

The Long View 2006-06-06: Panspermia; China; 666; Terrorism

Panspermia is the kind of idea that seems to appeal to Aspergery scientists and science fiction writers, and pretty much no one else. Panspermia; China; 666; Terrorism There are no good explanations for the origin of life. There are two bad explanations, however: Intelligent Design and panspermia. If you believe

The Long View 2006-06-02: Parties, Calumny, Spelling

Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada when I was very young, and perhaps as a consequence, is the the first Canadian politician I am likely to think of. Currently, his eldest son is also Prime Minister. Parties, Calumny, Spelling "America may be ready for a new political party,

The Long View: A Man in Full

A only slightly sarcastic review of Tom Wolfe's novel about Atlanta real estate, football, and racial politics. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 (US) $28.95, 742 Pages ISBN: 0-374-27032-5 Tom Wolfe had been going to lunches with editors for thirty years,

The Long View 2006-05-31: The Life of Saint George and the Coming of the Third Party

Third parties have a habit of not actually doing much in American politics. The Unity party ticket mentioned here is a prime example. The Life of Saint George and the Coming of the Third Party The Bush Administration would be in worse shape were it not for the fact that

The Long View 2006-05-30: Damnation; Fraud; German Studies

German cinema of the early twentieth century continues to be influential even today. I haven't seen Laurel and Hardy in at least twenty-five years, but I had forgotten about this reference to the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in their work. Damnation; Fraud; German Studies Which is more alarming,

The Long View 2006-05-24: The Next America

Here are a couple of graphs to help illustrate John Reilly's points here. If we would really like to emulate the success of the last large wave of immigration to the United States, from roughly 1840 to 1930, it would be prudent of us to stop, and give