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Is America ready for an honest conversation about abortion yet?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - Pro-lifers have the luxury of absolute moral certainty, you see. Life begins at conception, they insist, and therefore abortion is murder. Period. And life is the most sacred thing on Earth. Is this formulation without its problems? Of course not - it’s about as inane as are all incredibly simple answers to incredibly complex questions. But it is simple, and if you’ve ever been to a pro-life rally you understand that this crowd is not inherently drawn to complexities.

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Carbon dioxide lifetime 50-100x longer than generally reported

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Brian Angliss - Dec. 05 (News Analysis) - There is a great deal of confusion regarding how long carbon dioxide (CO2) persists in the atmosphere. There are at least two reasons for this. The first reason is that there are multiple physical and biological processes that combine to remove CO2 from the air and they behave differently and at different speeds.

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Rogues, scandals and the Church of Baseball: S&R Honors Babe Ruth

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Sam Smith - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - You have to be pretty simple to believe that baseball didn't know about the epidemic of clubhouse pharmacology, but hey - the game had shot itself in the foot with the 1994 strike and it needed to win fans back. And chicks dig the long ball, you know?

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World's Worst Nuclear Proliferator? Guess

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world. North Korea? Put those missiles back in your pants. Iraq? Wipe that nuclear smirk off your face. Iran? No nuclear for you at all.

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Who has access to your personal data? Everyone -- except you

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Martin Bosworth - Mar. 02 (News Analysis) - Big banks, telecoms, and utilities hoard private data on customers and citizens, yet can't protect the data from snooping employees and identity thieves. What do you do when everyone has access to you?

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Laptop of Mass Destruction

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Mar. 02 (News Analysis) - It looks like, even though there isn't much meat on it, the US will continue to gnaw on the Iran bone. Let's just hope we don't crunch through and wind up with splinters in our mouth.

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Pushing Journalism's Envelope Inside-Out

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Feb. 29 (News Analysis) - "The 'Chechnya' special operation has infected the whole country, which is becoming more and more beastly and idiotic. The value of human life was already very low in Russia, and now it has slipped to almost nothing. We have all reached the depths, like the unrescued Kursk [the sunken submarine]. And there's no order for rescue." -- Anna Politkovskaya

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Experience is to Hillary as 9/11 is to Giuliani

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Jan. 21 (News Analysis) - Rudolph Giuliani's ritualistic incantations of 9/11 have become a national joke. Hillary's got her own equivalent of Giuliani's 9/11: her "experience." It's gospel to much of the public but some in the media aren't buying it.

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What would we do without murder?

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Jan. 12 (News Analysis) - Crime in America is big business. You might even call it a bubble. After dot.com and housing, do we really want another bubble to burst?

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Is Obama the new JFK?

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Dr. Slammy - Jan. 07 (News Analysis) - Something big happened a few nights ago in Iowa. Barack Obama began the evening as one of the top two contenders for the Democratic nomination and by the time people went to bed he was John F. Kennedy.

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Un-becoming a citizen

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Dec. 31 (Opinion) - "Very few Americans actually function as citizens anymore." Not only don't most of us care to be reminded of what we don't know about our government, neither have we much interest in acquiring that knowledge. Furthermore, "That foreign policy stuff is too complicated, man."

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Give us your tired, your poor, your Iraqi refugees. . .

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Russ Wellen - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - A Democratic candidate for president must break new ground for boldness and rub the plight of Iraqi refugees in our faces. Already it threatens to become as big a stain on our national soul as slavery and our annihilation of the red man.

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Democrats should run on the economy instead of Iraq

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:13:30 -0800

Scholars & Rogues - By Martin - Dec. 01 (Opinion) - In this case, something I've been wondering about for a long time is the idea that in order to win the 2008 Presidential election, the Democratic candidates should forgo making Iraq the central issue to campaign on, and adopt the lesson of the current front-runner's husband-"it's the economy, stupid."

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Graham Parker: Stupid people should shut the f?!k up

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:18:35 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Sam Smith - Aug. 15 (Interview) - SS: ...Why do you believe that an artist's opinion on politics should matter? GP: I don't participate actively in expressing political views and always turn down the offer of appearing on bills for political causes. Surely, everybody's opinions on politics matter, apart from very stupid people, who should shut the f?!k up...

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The House trumpets earmark reform - through a tuba

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:33:31 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Brian Angliss - Aug. 01 (Opinion) - Yesterday, the House of Representative passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, trumpeting the bill as "landmark legislation" that will "drain the swamp that is Washington, to let sunshine disinfect the Congress." Even critics are calling this bill "'big-time' fundamental reforms" and saying that the legislation "should go a long way toward changing the way business is done in Congress." And if the act were just about lobbying reform, I'd agree. But the act also includes earmark reform, and these reforms leave a great deal to be desired...

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Protecting our nation's secrets - why have deadlines passed with no apparent consequences?

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:14:34 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Brian Angliss - Jul. 27 (Opinion) - Cheney has excused his entire office from oversight under the mistaken impression that he's a fourth branch of government that gets to choose whether it's part of executive branch or the legislative branch on a case-by-case basis. And yet we don't have any indications of progress on the part of the Oversight Committee weeks after the last deadline passed. I asked the Oversight Committee to comment about these issues...

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CU and the Churchill Affair: How did this happen in the first place?

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:47:23 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Sam Smith - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - The wait is over and the inevitable has happened: the University of Colorado yesterday formally dismissed Professor Ward Churchill. If Churchill is guilty of academic dishonesty, then he needed to go. However, it's a huge mistake to see the Churchill case exclusively in terms of the events that have made the front pages. How did his academic dishonesty go unnoticed? As it turns out, I might have some insight into this question...

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Presidential candidates raise big cash fast -- but from whom? And why?

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:30:37 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Denny Wilkins - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - A magician who seeks to retain the illusion for the audience uses sleight of hand and misdirection. In the modern political era beginning in earnest with the 1994 mid-term elections, a Republican majority in Congress mastered that art using the textbooks authored by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. Although that majority has evaporated, the Democratic successors have continued to play three-card monte with the best of the GOP...

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Basic principles for building America's Internet future

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:30:37 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Martin Bosworth - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - Sen. Dick Durbin has begun a several-night series of conversations with the blogosphere on how to build a set of principles for improving American broadband and Internet development. This is a watershed moment and a fantastic chance to make the people's voices heard on this most important issue. So with that in mind, here's what I put to Senator Durbin -- a few basic principles for what our country needs to build its Internet future...

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When titans clash: Google vs. AT&T for America's Internet future

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:25:21 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Martin Bosworth - Jul. 23 (Opinion) - The FCC recently announced plans to auction off portions of the wireless spectrum in order to raise money for the government. Although supporters of net neutrality and broadband access wanted the spectrum to remain open in order to build a national wireless broadband network, it was generally expected that incumbent telecoms would use their mountains of cash to outbid other participants and hoard the spectrum for their own offerings. Until now...

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Sen. Vitter, take 2: Is the media missing the real story?

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:25:27 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Denny Wilkins - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - Vitter and wife met the press Monday but took no questions about his use of a prostitute. Mrs. Vitter offered support for her husband; Sen. Vitter looked forward to the future of "continu[ing] my work in the U.S. Senate to help move Louisiana forward." Specifically he said he wished to help "finalize a crucial water resources bill to provide much better hurricane and flood protection." Sen. Vitter had been a representative in Congress since 1998 before succeeding John Breaux in the Senate. If he wants better hurricane and flood protection for the Gulf Coast now, why haven't reporters reviewed his House voting record on funding for same before Katrina? Would that reveal a greater hypocrisy? After all, this is the guy who...

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Everything is coming up Capitalism

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:31:54 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Gavin Chait - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - [A]s in George Orwell's cerebral 1984, there are Ministries of Information inventing new versions of Newspeak to obscure meaning and disguise intentions. "Communism" has been entirely discredited. The word, that is, not the ideology. That has re-emerged. Now it is known as "new economics" or "anti-globalisation" or "people's economies."

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Forget Sen. Vitter's penis: Follow his money

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:06:14 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Denny Wilkins - Jul. 11 (News Analysis) - So Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) paid for sex. Big deal. All this "sex sells" coverage may drive ratings, but it detracts readers and viewers from far more important issues. Politicians would rather have the press focused on their sexual peccadilloes than on their financial affairs while in service to their constituents. Sen. Vitter's "serious sin" has nothing to do with sex. It's the sin far too many senators and members of Congress seem to commit with corporate abandon...

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The mockingbird's song isn't heard in Jena, LA

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:48:45 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Jim Booth - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Today is the 46th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's iconic novel about Southern race relations, To Kill a Mockingbird. This particular anniversary seems a bittersweet one, since the Jena 6 case suggests the central issue that Lee's novel explores - the inability of Southern whites to see blacks as fellow Americans with equal rights - hasn't changed...

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The human face of net neutrality

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:04:23 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - By Martin Bosworth - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - A free and open Internet not only guarantees that commerce and business will grow, but that the exchange of ideas on a global level will continue to increase at astonishing rates every moment of every day. Think about it-how awesome is it that I can write this and you can read it from all corners of the Earth?

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