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• COLUMN: Brevity not always best

  Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

  “The speech of man is a magnificent and impressive thing when it surges along like a golden river, with thoughts and words pouring out in ...
• COLUMN: Video games dangerous because of their boredom-conquering abilities

  Friday, Nov. 6, 2009

  Our society has a great fear of boredom. It is the quotidian complaint, the source of innumerable protests, the great enemy of fun.
• COLUMN: Costs outweigh benefits of new software

  Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

  Later this month, Microsoft will release Windows 7, another needless operating system. XP and Vista, despite their problems, still do what nearly everyone needs them ...
• Point/ Counterpoint: Contemporary artists don’t create works ordinary people can understand, but focus on conversing among themselves

  Monday, Sept. 28, 2009

  Columnists debate merits of contemporary art
• COLUMN: Unfair practice of usury still exists today

  Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

  Our entire global economy is built on a practice that has been condemned by great thinkers since antiquity, and nobody is saying a word against ...
• COLUMN: Divisively partisan politics here to stay

  Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

  One of today’s popular pastimes seems to be found in endlessly writing condemnations of the lack of tolerance and compromise in our culture.