America Jones

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Irrational Contagion

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Informed, rational debate is a cornerstone of American ideology. The American constitutional republic is a clear implementation of European...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

Dialog

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A: We killed Osama bin Laden. B: Who? A: Osama bin Laden. B: ? A: The Al Qaeda guy?  911? B: I stopped keeping track of the bastards after w...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

A Lot of Change, Not Much Difference

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The broadcast media's portrait of the 2006 elections as a referendum on the Iraq War has turned out to be not only meaningless, but als...
Monday, October 19, 2009

On the Macroeconomic Subtext of Healthcare Reform

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In the current healthcare reform debate, one statistic frequently cited by politicians and pundits indicates that Americans spend between 1...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Sympathy for the Details of Wall Street's Bailout

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These are difficult times and many of our leaders have a difficult job ahead of them. While Congress is busy summoning the proper demons req...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Debating Popular Intelligent Design

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A recent article on Wired sparked a debate in the online comments section about the relative merits of evolution and popular intelligent de...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Reacting to an Epidemic Violence

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The reporting around the horrific events at Northwestern Illinois University has, as in past school shootings, focused on the grief of fami...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Television, Contradiction, and Social Manipulation

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Often, when I enter a bar or a club to which I haven't previously been, I count the number of television screens. I frequently find the ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Domestic Surveillance in America

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There seems to be a lot of indifference in the United States regarding domestic surveillance. Perhaps this indifference is a result of a cit...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Agitprop Ticonderoga Quantization Table Manipulation

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tertium quid mnemosyne janus
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Gitmo '07 for Fun and Profit

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In response to Great Britain's formal request that the United States release five British residents from the Guantanamo Bay detention fa...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Letter to a Representative from a Disaffected Patriot

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Dear Sen. X, With all respect, I appreciate your sincere desire to serve the Nation and our fine State of residence, but I have serious doub...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Practical Electromagnetic Mood Management

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How might covert interests acting as a parasite within an authoritarian regime -- with access to trillions of military research dollars a...

Regarding the Implications of MySpace Link Filtering

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Perhaps the days of the " Googlebomb " are drawing to a close. MySpace has begun to re-code outbound links from user pages in an e...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

The Sphinx at the War Office: Meditations on Harmony and Discord

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ad oculos: intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether. nihil obstat.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Weaponization of the Magnetosphere

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I recently came across some lumbering bit of bureaucratese called "Radiation Belt Remediation." Previously, I had only heard the w...
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