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• Your Career: Can your name affect your career?

  Sun Nov 22, 2009
  • Didn't Hollywood studios figure out this whole name change thing as a marketing tool a long time ago? Not to mention musicians today who use all kinds of made up names. I guess it depends on who gets to choose the name and why.

• Future of evolution: What will we become?

  Mon Nov 16, 2009
  • Well, we could evolve to have bigger brains, in spite of the limits of head size imposed by the size of the birth canal if one of at least two things happened:

• Catholic bishops: Gay marriage hurts society

  Tue Nov 17, 2009
  • I can't wait to see the final report - why are so many priests child abusers? I' ve seen a lot of new stories about the boys that were abused, but either there are a lot of gay pedophiles in the priesthood, or we have simply heard nothing about the even larger numbers of girls that must have been …

• Is Cheney justified in his criticism of the Obama administration?

  Thu Oct 22, 2009
  • There's a lot at play in Afghanistan right now - the next round of voting (which wasn't that certain to happen) - will it be credible? What will happen with the current Pakistani offensive? We are also seeing some actual debate within our own administration, a healthy thing that was completely …

• If you were invited to the White House for a beer, your beverage of choice would be:

  Thu Jul 30, 2009
  • Why not a black and tan? I know it's not really "a" beer.

• Down on the farm: A dairyman's lament

  Sun Jun 7, 2009
  • One of the reasons we have fewer farmers is that farms are so huge today. At one time, farming a thousand acres would have been a big job - if just a few people are farming 15,000 acres, then that puts a lot of the former farmers out of the business.

• 5Top: Khaaaaaaaaan! Great ‘Star Trek’ villains

  Mon May 4, 2009
  • Hey, what about the Klingons? They were always sneaking around in the Forbidden Zone and shooting stuff at the Enterprise.

• Notre Dame's Obama invite riles bishops

  Sat May 2, 2009
  • I don't remember all these bishops protesting when George W. Bush recieved an honorary degree, and he supported torture and started a war under false pretenses that killed hundreds of thousands of innocents.

• Help! Will Beatles' tunes ever make it online?

  Sun Feb 1, 2009
  • The Beatles are no longer relevant - I teach at a college and students still listen to Led Zepellin, but I have never met a student who listens to the Beatles. Sad.

• Analysis: Might alone can't achieve Gaza quiet

  Sun Jan 18, 2009
  • Why is Israel is being called upon to do something for people in Gaza?  Isn't that Hamas's responsibility?  But I guess as long as Hamas is more interested in runnng a war than governing a country, that's not likely to happen.