Salon.com News | Oiling up the draft machine?

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Salon.com News | George W. Bush's
missing year

Salon.com News | George W. Bush's
missing year 09/03/2004 04:41 AM
A widow recalls a phone call about Bush .. detailing President Bush's lost year .. "Good lord, no." .. great salon piece .. Salon

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Salon.com News | Iraqis: "Smoking gun"
made with duct tape

Salon.com News | Iraqis: "Smoking gun"
made with duct tape 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Iraqi drone aircraft built out of balsa wood and duck tape .. Iraqis: "Smoking gun" made with duct tape .. terrorist weapon of mass destruction .. just a balsa-wood model

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Making the News: Draft of Chapter 10

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 10 04/17/2004 08:46 AM
This is a draft of Chapter 10 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 8

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 8 04/11/2004 03:48 PM
This is a draft of Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 9

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 9 04/14/2004 11:51 AM

This is a draft of Chapter 9 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 7

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 7 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
This is a draft of Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 11

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 11 04/17/2004 02:00 PM
This is a draft of Chapter 11 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 12

Making the News: Draft of Chapter 12 04/21/2004 12:50 PM
This is a draft of Chapter 12 of my upcoming book, "Making the News."

" Yahoo! News - Kerry Says Draft May
Return Under Bush "

" Yahoo! News - Kerry Says Draft May
Return Under Bush " 09/24/2004 04:07 PM

Yahoo! News - Kerry Says Draft May
Return Under Bush

Yahoo! News - Kerry Says Draft May
Return Under Bush 09/22/2004 06:46 PM
making bogus claims about restoring the draft? .. Kerry: Draft Likely to Return Under Bush .. From the AP

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Wired News: Rage Against the (Chess)
Machine

Wired News: Rage Against the (Chess)
Machine 11/11/2003 03:37 AM

Wired News: Diebold Machine May Get Boot

Wired News: Diebold Machine May Get Boot 04/25/2004 09:41 AM
California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold .. Diebold machine may get boot .. civil and criminal charges

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Wired News: Sweet Dreams Made by Machine

Wired News: Sweet Dreams Made by Machine 01/24/2004 07:07 AM
Sweet Dreams Made by Machine

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the
Google search machine

BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the
Google search machine 06/09/2004 10:29 PM
BBC NEWS Inside the Google search machine .. bbc

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NewsNet5.com - News - Voting Machine
Maker's Executive Holds Political
Fundraiser

NewsNet5.com - News - Voting Machine
Maker's Executive Holds Political
Fundraiser 06/08/2004 08:24 PM
Diebold Chairman Holds Republican Fundraiser .. Diebold

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µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.

µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech. 12/17/2004 06:31 PM
Intelligent wireless TCP/IP modems, which support application features including E-mail, FTP and automated I/O & GPS location reporting. - Part of a Box-to-Module-to-License design philosophy offering rapid time to market. - Eases integration of legacy equipment with Central Management applications. [PRWEB Nov 28, 2004]

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1 11/03/2003 06:39 AM
Miles from 'fair and balanced' .. Media Matters column .. fair

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A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine

A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine 08/04/2004 10:03 PM
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine

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Will Salon Ever Die?

Will Salon Ever Die? 03/17/2005 03:13 AM

Salon.com : How many lives does Salon have? I just noticed that two years ago today, we were posting about how they couldn't pay their rent and were almost gone.

Well, Salon is almost bankrupt. We've heard this before — Salon is always rumored to be circling the drain, ready to go under in a blaze of glory. Of course, this time they can't pay their rent, so I think it's serious.

Yet, they're still around.

Salon TV awards

Salon TV awards 09/17/2004 08:34 AM
Your picks -- and ours -- for who should take home Emmy.

Spolsky in Salon

Spolsky in Salon 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
I've been an admirer of Joel Spolsky's writing on software since I started reading it several years ago. Last month when I was in New York I sat down with Joel and had a good long talk about software development, partly for the purpose of my book research and partly because I knew he'd be entertaining and thoughtful. Today's Salon features a write-up of the interview, pegged in part to the publication of a book collection of Spolsky's essays.

Technorati Salon

Technorati Salon 05/19/2004 05:45 PM

I have a late afternoon meeting in the City today so I am thinking about stopping by at Technorat i Developer's Salon afterward for pizza, beer, conversation, and adventure (I never been to that part of the town -- Do I need to bring my urban jungle knife, David?).  Maybe I'll see you there.

Other: Salon Mac Feature

Other: Salon Mac Feature 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
Will the Mini give the Mac a second chance against Windows?

Salon op-ed on DNC bl0ggers

Salon op-ed on DNC bl0ggers 07/29/2004 05:05 AM
Danah boyd has adapted her rant about the NYT's dismissal of the DNC bloggers as "Web diarists" into an op-ed for Salon.

Blogging will not replace traditional journalism, but it presents a threat to the normative press culture and an opportunity for radical reporting. Bloggers do place the issue of professionalism under attack, not by being unprofessional, but by exposing the ways in which the media operates. As blogging reaches the masses, people are introduced to information that was not reported because it did not suit the party line. Bloggers will happily document the power games that they witness in the press room and will expose future Jayson Blairs. Bloggers also capture information that the mainstream press does not yet realize is valuable, which means that ambitious and digitally minded journalists are constantly scanning the blogs for information. More and more, journalists are thanking bloggers for new slants. The competition between journalists and bloggers for readers' attention results in more diverse and compelling coverage.

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Salon in Libraries?

Salon in Libraries? 03/19/2003 10:45 PM

Last year I said I thought Salon should look into licensing content to libraries, and now they're finally doing something about it. Adrienne Crew, their Content Licensing Manager, sent me the following:

"Thought you'd like to know that Salon's Premium Institutional Subscription program for libraries is finally up and running.... Currently we are offering a one year subscription in the $300-400 range and feeds all access to the articles on the site via an IP authentication system or a single password."

More details as I get them.

Salon article

Salon article 07/14/2004 10:23 AM
Salon

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as Salon reports today

as Salon reports today 07/18/2004 06:52 AM
salon

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Stepheon's Confusion on Salon

Stepheon's Confusion on Salon 04/21/2004 03:23 AM
My copy of Neal Stephenson's Confusion, the new, enormous sequel to Quicksilver, arrived in the mail yesterday before I left for Turin, and it's in my suitcase, waiting for me. Quicksilver was a remarkable book, a triumphant combination of Stephenson's trivia-obsessed, research-intensive approach to the precursors of the information age (viz. Snow Crash's Nam-Shub of Enki and Cryptonomicon's Bletchley Park sequences) and his gift for sprawling, braided stoorylines that combine slapstick action scenes with intense, emotional passages.

Salon's running a double feature on Stephenson today: a long interview with Neal, and a review by Andrew Leonard. Both are highly recommended -- I can't wait to sink my teeth into this book.

Science was new and they didn't know how to do it yet. Science was and is a somewhat contentious thing. Someone's got a theory and they promulgate that theory and then something else comes along and alters, improves on or even flatly contradicts it. Now that we've got 350 years of perspective on this, scientists understand that this is how it's done and there's a mechanism in place for how to do it. It's refereed journals and it's become institutionalized. They didn't have that perspective on it. They couldn't stand back and say, Well, my theory may get contradicted here and there, but this guy who's contradicting it will get contradicted in turn. They didn't have that expectation. They didn't have journals. The first two journals were the Journale de Savants, which was about 1665, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society, which was right about the same time. Leibniz had to found his own journal in order to publish his own work. They were kind of banging around in the dark trying to figure out how to do this.

Hooke, for example, when he figured out how arches work, published it as an anagram. He condensed the idea into this pithy statement: "The ideal form of an arch is the form of a chain hanging, flipped upside down." Then he scrambled the letters to make an anagram and published it. That way, he wasn't giving away the secret, but if somebody came along a few years later and claimed that they'd invented it, he could just unscramble what he'd published. He was establishing precedence.

Hooke squabbled with [Christiaan] Huygens over a bunch of clock-related inventions. This kind of thing was just rife. It came to a head in a grotesque way in the priority dispute over [who invented] the calculus. That was so embarrassing to the whole institution of science and people were so nauseated by it that it taught everyone a lesson. After that, no one would dream of doing what Newton did, which was to invent something really important and then sit on it for 30 years.

Salon: Mozilla rising

Salon: Mozilla rising 09/11/2002 06:43 PM
But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a "platform" -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs and even Linux desktops. You don't need to download Mozilla to use these apps, as some are distributed with their own stripped-down version of Mozilla's engine -- which, if you think about it, is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming a platform. So wouldn't it be rich if, in the end, Microsoft succeeds in killing Netscape and winning the browser war but still, somehow, doesn't eliminate the platform threat? If Netscape dies but the dragon that it spawned burns Redmond?

"btn" I don't know why so many people in the open source world have an inferiority complex and are always comparing themselves to Microsoft, or planning Microsoft's downfall, or are simply jealous. When I release open source software, I'm just pleased if a hundred or a thousand people are using it. And if Microsoft ever uses my code, hey that would be delightful!

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Salon.com Technology | The new
bl0gocracy

Salon.com Technology | The new
bl0gocracy 07/29/2004 03:30 PM
¨„§ˆ©§Œ› §„ˆ† .. op-ed piece for Salon .. Danah Boyd

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Salon.com Technology | Must-download TV

Salon.com Technology | Must-download TV 08/12/2004 02:35 AM
Must-Download TV

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Salon discusses Orkut

Salon discusses Orkut 06/16/2004 03:59 AM
You are who you know

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Salon.com - Daou Report

Salon.com - Daou Report 06/24/2005 06:00 PM
From the Daou Report: .. foul

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danah in Salon: The new bl0gocracy

danah in Salon: The new bl0gocracy 07/29/2004 11:49 AM

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"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..."

"COMMERCE CLAUSE NEWS: I haven't read
the opinion yet, but Larry Solum reports
that the Ninth Circuit has held that the
federal government can't ban homemade
machine guns under the Commerce Clause,
since they're not in interstate
commerce. He notes that..." 11/14/2003 04:05 PM

Tao of Extreme Democracy Future Salon

Tao of Extreme Democracy Future Salon 09/15/2004 09:21 PM
Tomorrow night I'm speaking at the Tao of Extreme Democracy Future Salon with Zack Rosen of CivicSpace (formerly DeanSpace, which supports sites like Mitch Kapor supported Baobabs) and Tom Atlee, author of the Tao of Democracy. We'll be talking Extreme...

The Salon Interview: Bill Clinton

The Salon Interview: Bill Clinton 06/25/2004 09:02 AM
The former president blasts the Bush-Cheney rush to war, explains why Gore lost in 2000 and tells how Kerry can win in 2004.

Salon.com Technology | The myth of
interference

Salon.com Technology | The myth of
interference 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Salon.com Technology The myth of interference .. [Link]

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Joseph Wilson interviewed at Salon.

Joseph Wilson interviewed at Salon. 05/03/2004 02:38 AM
Joseph Wilson interviewed at Salon. They've also tried to portray you, and all the other whistle-blowers who have spoken out against the administration, as partisan democrats. Do you think that has been an effective technique? It hasn't worked with me. People are touched by this story because it gives a human face to a whole host of lies and deceptions that only now are becoming apparent to the American public. Americans don't like this attitude. Americans don't like to see their women taken out and beaten up.
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DRAFT REGISTRATION: United States Armed
Forces

DRAFT REGISTRATION: United States Armed
Forces 05/07/2004 03:41 AM
President Bush Orders Draft Reinstated: All American Men & Women Aged 16-45 Must Register Immediately .. DRAFT REGISTRATION: United States Armed Forces .. DraftRegistration.US 5/7

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Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations

Why The United States Just Doesn't Get
The United Nations 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

For years I have been amazed as I’ve listened to people here in the United States demonstrate their complete ignorance of the purpose and tremendous value of the United Nations, even to the point of our country not paying dues to the organization. Ambassador to the United Nations havs often been viewed as second-class or B-level diplomatic job and with the current presidential perspective, the UN has become a troublesome entity and the appointment of…

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The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments

The United States, Backed By The
European Union, Japan And Canada, Has
Turned Back A Bid By Developing Nations
To Place The Internet Under The Control
Of The United Nations Or Its Member
Governments 12/09/2003 03:48 AM
Washington Times .. second paragraph

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The United States Is In Deep Doo doo!

The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
The United States Is In Deep Doo doo! In the end, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot make money grow in value by shaking it back and forth from one bank to another. You cannot prosper a nation by doing each other's laundry, or filling out their government mandated and greatly obfuscated paperwork, or flinging stock certificates around which may have as little real worth as Federal Reserve Notes. To make money, to show a profit, you must make products that somebody else wants to buy, and sadly, that is a capability the United States has allowed to slip away in great measure.

A Map of Languages in the United States

A Map of Languages in the United States 06/22/2004 06:04 AM
A Map of Languages in the United States
http://www.mla.org/census_main

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The Language Map illustrates the density of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers.

The United States of Texas

The United States of Texas 06/24/2004 01:23 AM
Salon Jun 24 2004 5:21AM GMT

Vital Statistics of the United States

Vital Statistics of the United States 05/30/2004 07:49 AM
Vital Statistics of the United States (VSUS)
http:/ /www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/vsus.htm


Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce. These reports are available for download or as bound volumes in many large public and university libraries. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog.

Historical Statistics of the United
States

Historical Statistics of the United
States 12/27/2004 06:52 AM
Historical Statistics of the United States
http://www.csep.ucr.edu/ HSUS/HSUS.html

The goal of the project is to produce an updated, expanded, and thoroughly revised edition in print and electronic formats of various historical statistics of the United States, to be collected from the Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Colonial Times to The Present (Cambridge University Press). The Historical Statistics of the United States was first published in 1949 by the Bureau of the Census with the advice and assistance of the Social Science Research Council. A second and much larger edition appeared in 1960 under the same auspices. The third edition, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, was published by the Bureau in 1975 and was expanded to two volumes. In the year 2005 Cambridge University Press will publish the fourth, millennial, edition of this classic reference work. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Al Capone shouldn't represent the United
States

Al Capone shouldn't represent the United
States 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Fareed Zakaria has a great article, The Arrogant Empire, in this week's Newsweek. Answers the questions, "why are all those foreigners against us?" and "how can they think that George Bush is a bigger threat than Saddam Hussein?" I learned a lot from reading it. Highly Recommended.. Some quotes: In fact, while the United States has the backing of a dozen or so governments, it has the support of a majority of the people in only one country in the world, Israel. If that is not isolation, then the word has no meaning.... the United States will spend as much next year on defense as the rest of the world put together (yes, all 191 countries... go back to 1945. When America had the world at its feet, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman chose not to create an American imperium, but to build a world of alliances and multilateral institutions. They formed the United Nations, the...

Legal gay marriages in the United States

Legal gay marriages in the United States 05/17/2004 03:03 PM

Massachusetts has become the first state in the US to allow same-sex couples to get married. Whether it will last or be crushed under the weight of a Constitutional amendment I don't know, but it's bloody wonderful in the meantime:

Other towns and cities across the state were also prepared to wed large numbers of same-sex couples as the law came into force. The Supreme Court ruling upheld a decision by the state's highest court. It said that denying marriage licences to same-sex couples violated anti-discrimination laws.

The Massachusetts ruling has fuelled heated debate across the country - and the controversy has been particularly intense in an election year. In a statement, President Bush said he had called on the Congress "to pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The need for that amendment is still urgent, and I repeat that call today." His rival John Kerry - who is a Massachusetts senator - is also opposed to same-sex marriages, but favours a more limited form of legal recognition.

I think the issue of gay marriage only started to matter to me when I realised that many of my gay friends actually wanted to get married. And on the day when a friend of mine showed me a marriage booking form online in San Francisco and I started looking for the section for gay people and there wasn't one - It was all the same form... That affected me too I think - to realise that while it was clearly an issue at the moment, the whole point of this battle was about completely collapsing that difference around relationships. That's a pretty cool goal...

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won't end the world's distrust of the
United States

won't end the world's distrust of the
United States 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
NYTimes - Krugman is worried about Things to Come .. Paul Krugman's current column .. Register at NYTimes.com .. for future d .. op-ed piece .. NY Times .. Click .. column .. more

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People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you???

People of the United States, why is
everyone yelling at you??? 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
Beware! We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. The manifesto of the Unitarian Jihad.

What's really wrong with the United
States medical system?

What's really wrong with the United
States medical system? 10/30/2003 09:20 PM
The United States health care system is sick. The prices of health insurance are skyrocketing, 40 million Americans are uninsured, and more join them every day. The uninsured are often charged extortionate amounts of money for emergency care and forced to do without any other kind, doctors are often squeezed to the point of barely making a living, and the result is unnecessary deaths and bankruptcy for many. What can be done about this? Some suggest that the government completely socialize health care, becoming the only payer for medical goods and services in the United States. Others suggest "market-based" solutions incorporating tax credits for health insurance, tort reform, medical savings accounts, and other "conservative" ideas. However, neither of these solutions address the real problem. Health care is already a market in the United States, and a reasonably free market as well! However, it's the wrong type of market. In this article, I discuss the situation as well as I can understand and suggest some possible solutions.

"donate to United States Presidental
candidates "

"donate to United States Presidental
candidates " 01/26/2004 03:04 PM

"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States"

"Bill Clinton, Former President of the
United States" 07/29/2004 01:02 AM

Teraserver has the Entire United States
Mapped

Teraserver has the Entire United States
Mapped 12/12/2003 03:19 AM
I think this is way cool. I have always hoped that someday I would be able to buy high quality...

United States Patent Application:
0050071741

United States Patent Application:
0050071741 04/04/2005 04:20 PM
•‰ €‚ � €� €‚�‚ .. Google was awarded a patent .. patents .. patent

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2003 Statistical Abstract of the United
States

2003 Statistical Abstract of the United
States 02/13/2004 07:01 AM
2003 Statistical Abstract of the United States
htt p://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-03.html

The 2003 Statistical Abstract of the United States is now online and continues to gives us access to very valuable demographics and economic information on the United States. I have addded this to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Business Intelligence and will be adding this to my Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States"

"stepping up to prevent him from
becoming President of the United States" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked

Even the president of the United States
sometimes must have to stand naked 07/15/2004 01:55 AM

Two decades ago I had the odd and daunting experience of defending my undergraduate thesis, on several of Shakespeare's plays, before a panel of scholars. While hardly as rigorous as the real orals a PhD thesis is supposed to be subjected to, this encounter was part of what my department at Harvard required for graduation, and I faced it with some trepidation.

When I walked in, I was introduced to William Alfred, the playwright, poet and English professor. I hadn't studied with Alfred, and had no idea what to expect from the rumpled man. He broke the ice with a simple question: At the start of "King Lear," Cordelia refuses her royal father's demand for a profession of love. There's a foreign phrase that describes her act in legal terms -- what is it?

I'm not sure how many layers of my brain I had to dig through to find it, but somehow I retrieved the desired answer, the medieval label for an injury to the royal office: "Lese majeste!" Alfred's eyes twinkled; my response seemed to satisfy my interrogators' basic requirement of literacy, and from there, all went swimmingly. (Alfred, a brilliant and generous soul with whom, alas, I only had a handful of further conversations, died in 1999.)

Of all things, this distant recollection popped into my head after I finally caught up with Michael Moore's much-debated "Fahrenheit 9/11." Many words have already been flung across the political spectrum about the movie. I will limit my contributions to this one phrase: What Moore has, I think, accomplished, particularly in the movie's more coherent and better-assembled first half, is an outrageous and highly effective act of lese majeste.

George Bush campaigned as an informal man of the people, and he did not carry a very dignified bearing into the Oval Office. (Remember that strange boil on his face during the Florida recount?) But from 9/11 on, his team of handlers began to weave a cocoon of larger-than-life pomp around him. Partly, it was what the nation wanted; it was also smart political opportunism. It has, to be sure, frayed some since the Iraq war and its attendant scandals. The "Henry V"-style bullhorn at ground zero struck a chord with many Americans; the "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier stunt backfired.

But "Fahrenheit 9/11" methodically dismantles this president's carefully manicured dignity: It says to the viewer, "Pay attention to the man behind the curtain -- he's smaller than life." The movie's most indelible sequences are those that show our president as he really was in the face of the great crisis of 9/11: Not, as we were told by Showtime' s "DC 9/11," a stirring take-charge commander, but a passive photo-op participant who sat paralyzed for achingly long minutes of "My Pet Goat" rather than take the initiative to say "excuse me" to the class and leave the room.

My colleague Andrew O'Hehir drew a connection between Moore and Dario Fo, the Italian playwright/performer most famous for his assaults on the dignity of the papacy. To be sure, Moore has none of Fo's skills as a physical clown and only a fraction of his instincts as an entertainer; Fo is an artist, while Moore is chiefly a propagandist. Still, it's a good comparison: The two men share a willingness -- more than that, a ferocious determination -- to strip away the niceties of ceremony from powerful men so that we can see their misdeeds.

That refusal of deference is, after you get past all the various problems with "Fahrenheit 9/11" as documentary and as history, what counts. The TV networks (though they thought nothing of rummaging through the details of Bill Clinton's tawdry sexual escapades) have decided to protect Bush from unflattering images. It falls to Moore to dig up the footage of protesters pelting his inaugural limousine with eggs, and play it for us again.

By the end of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore has flung his own messy indictment at the presidential portrait, and it won't be easily cleaned up. The filmmaker is deliberately, methodically, overflowingly disrespectful at a moment in our history when there's far too much respect in the land. When the throne holds an ignorant, incompetent, profligate pretender, lese majeste becomes a patriotic duty.

telefrog.com is one of the best
communication opportunities in the
United States.

telefrog.com is one of the best
communication opportunities in the
United States. 09/16/2004 03:12 AM
Mary Stevens, CEO of telefrog, goal was to find an exceptional moneymaking opportunity for telecommunication who wish to realize their financial dreams while spending more quality time with their families. Criteria for selection included stability of the company, experience of founders, lack of risk, and ease of succeeding in starting and operating an independent, telecommunication industry. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

United States Immigration Support -
Sponsored Link

United States Immigration Support -
Sponsored Link 03/28/2005 03:29 PM
Ad - http://www.immigrationagency.org Mar 28 2005 11:38AM GMT

CNN.com - Syria preparing sanctions
against United States - Jun 19, 2004

CNN.com - Syria preparing sanctions
against United States - Jun 19, 2004 06/21/2004 02:48 AM
Syria preparing sanctions against United States .. Read article .. Quote:

cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/19/syria.us.ap/index.html
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Motorola Model V600 to Debut in the
United States

Motorola Model V600 to Debut in the
United States 01/08/2004 08:26 PM
3G Jan 8 2004 6:41AM ET

"Ronald Reagan, President of the United
States of America"

"Ronald Reagan, President of the United
States of America" 06/06/2004 03:13 AM

exclusive ten-minute interview with the
President of the United States

exclusive ten-minute interview with the
President of the United States 06/26/2004 04:33 AM
link to El Blowhard Supremo interviewed in Ireland .. this video link to Bush on Irish TV .. Video

rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil
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"The unanimous Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America"

"The unanimous Declaration of the
thirteen united States of America" 07/04/2004 08:08 PM

The United States Distance Learning
Association -- USDLA -- ...

The United States Distance Learning
Association -- USDLA -- ... 12/09/2003 07:27 PM
The Learner's Library is more focused than a Google type Internet search, more in depth than an encyclopedia, and, through the footnote generator, "forgiving ...

Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo vs.
United States

Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo vs.
United States 04/09/2004 04:09 PM

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
http://www.9-11commission.gov/

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks

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