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Steroids today, kiting checks tomorrow. Hunh.

A passage from the NYT today, corrected for accuracy and proportion:
Menacing behavior is certainly not unique to the Internet. But since the Web offers the option of anonymity with no accountability a measure of physical distance missing from interactions in what netheads call “meatspace,” online conversations are often more prone to decay into ugliness than [...]

By Mona
It is April 9, 2007, and a Very Serious Man is still spewing vacuous inanities like this:

They hate us because of our freedoms and because we have worked to export those freedoms around the world.

This is not some inconsequential blogger like Dan Riehl, but rather a fellow both employed by [...]

I’m pleased to announce that after much interviewing I have accepted a faculty position.  Starting in September I will be an assistant professor of physics at a university outside Los Angeles (northeast of the city).  It’s a state university with a large engineering school, a beautiful campus, and a large cohort of new faculty.  I’m [...]

To coin a phrase, ditto. I especially like the passage where she condemns the recent treatment of British prisoners in Iran:
I have this rule of thumb, which I recommend to everyone: if Solzhenitsyn recounts some practice as one employed in coercive interrogations at Lubyanka, it’s torture. So, false execution: definitely torture. Also torture: long-time standing; [...]

By Mona
Wounded troops are being redeployed to Iraq in order to meet the numbers needed for The Great and Glorious Surge. Whether they are suffering from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and ought not — according to the doctors — be around weapons, or whether they have obvious and [...]