What's Wrong With Community Rule?

In recent news, South Dakota has passed a new law outlawing abortion in all but extreme instances, and Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan has announced plans to start a town that similarly does not allow abortion.

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NASA terminates the last of its asteroid missions

Due to budgetary problems, NASA has canned its missions to two asteroids to study them from close up. Claiming fiscal problems and questions about estimated budgetary overruns, NASA is leaving itself with no plans to visit asteroids for close study any time soon.

Manager of Theatre Kicks Disabled Teen Out For Laughing Too Loudly

This movie theater manager deserves to be fired for bringing in bad press. There is a right way to handle a situation and a wrong way to handle a situation. This was obviously the wrong way.

Predictions of Failure for Origami Before Release

Origami hasn't even been fully announced yet by Microsoft, and already I think that I can predict failure for this device. A smattering of comments on various weblogs talk to some of the most obvious failure points:

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Are Addictive Online Games Destroying Productivity?

Survey Question: How many hours a day do you spend accessing the Internet? I didn't even have to think before reaching for the pull-down list and choosing the maximum answer (40+). It's a simple question. I live on the Internet.

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Is Literacy Dead?

Books sit in my library downstairs, lined up with each other by topic in one case, by size in another. I haven't read any fiction in months, and I don't know if I will have time to read any in the near future.

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