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As I write this, it was 21 hours ago that I received an email that lists the sender as “postcard.com” and the title as “You have received a postcard !” Who doesn’t love receiving postcards, right? So I open the message and find the text immediately following my strong warning to you, dear [...]

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That’s what my dad used to tell me. He’d say, “Rick , locks are for honest people. If a thief wants in, no lock is gonna stop ‘im.”
Over the years this pithy sentiment has proven itself true over and over again and a recent example may be seen in the scenario where a 20-year [...]

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I find these two pieces of information patently infuriating:
…the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to approve a bill negotiated with the White House to allow—but not require—Bush to submit the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program to a secret court [FISA] for constitutional review.
That bill, which could come before the [...]

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Government in the United States is supposed to be representative; that means government is supposed to work for, and answers to, us (the people). When people don’t contact their elected representatives, there is no voice for the representatives to pay attention to and, consequently, they decide for themselves how to vote.
It’s far less effective [...]

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Imagine: you’re in a classroom and get called upon by the teacher to answer a question. Between the time that the teacher finishes asking the question and the time you begin to answer, I wonder: where do your eyes go while you’re thinking about what to say?
In early September 2006, the British Journal of [...]

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