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Rod Dreher
Technology: The god that failed in the Gulf
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Rod Dreher
The WaPo’s Joel Achenbach on where our worship of the false god of Technology can lead us: There have been blowouts since the dawn of the oil drilling industry, but never a blowout like this. This one is the deepest on record, industry officials say. A blowout last August in the Timor Sea had some…
Why Ray Bradbury still matters
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Rod Dreher
I have never read Ray Bradbury, but after this Slate essay about why he still matters, I’m planning to stop off at the bookstore on the way home, buy some of his stuff, take it home to read with my oldest son. Excerpt: Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not…
At home with Mac nerds
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Rod Dreher
Matthew, looking over my shoulder just now: “Hey, you’ve got a new operating system.”Me: “Yeah. My hard drive crashed on this laptop the other day. The tech guy at work installed a new one, and it had Windows 7 on it.”Matthew, voice dripping with fake sincerity: “Mama! Mama! We can have a Windows 7 launch…
No easy villains in Gulf oil spill
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Rod Dreher
Lisa Margonelli delivers the discomfiting truth that there are probably no easy villains in the Gulf oil spill disaster — and what that means for our reliance on “easy” oil. Excerpt: Where did that oil spill go? We’ve got millions of barrels of oil sloshing around off the most sensitive coastline on the continent, and…
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