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Alien Evaluation on Sep 23 2011

Beasts of Lost Heart On this fading Eden civilization retreats. Paradise lies spent in carnage. Life in disregard, peril grows, goodwill recedes. Architect of this misadventure differs from fellow beasts by paradox: a vivid imagination conjures reason, self-awareness, ethics, morals, love .. and gods, to palliate a vicious ...

Self-foreclosure on Oct 1 2008

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Financial Circus Brings in the Clowns Every facet of our species’ brilliant and ever-advancing career finds us, whichever specialty, not quite in control. With disorder tamed to an acceptable death rate, expertise is claimed. When un-garbage in equals un-garbage out, design defers to mass production – with mass recall a hair-breadth beyond. As matters ...

Dumbing-up the Army on Jul 23 2005

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Are military recruits over-stressed by modern high-tech weaponry, with consequent "dumbing-down" of training regimes? FORT JACKSON ~ Brigadier General Bradley "Hummer" Abrams, one of the nation’s leading military trainers, believes not. The U.S. armed forces don’t need any ‘dumbing down’, as you call it. Our ...