Name: Sam Jack
Dateline: Wichita, Kansas
Weblog: lowether.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 107
First Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Last Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Sam Jack is a college freshman, and is Forum Editor of the Harvard Independent. Visit him at The Harvard Independent and the Harvard Dems blog.Currently listing articles 107-51:
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Bloomberg, and Bush's Post-Modern Presidency— America isn't sick of partisanship. What it's really sick of is doublethink.
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How 9/11 Changed Everything for Giuliani— Ever since 9/11, it's been quick cash for Giuliani.
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Libby Didn't Need a Gun to Commit a Crime— And laws aren't just for the poor.
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Let's Forget About the Hair— The GOP is attempting to distract the public with irrelevancies like hair and parking tickets while real issues are ignored.
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The Republicans Deserved to Lose— The party in power had done more than enough to convince us to throw them out.
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The Republicans Lost? It's Quiz Day!— How conservative talk hosts are dealing with their disappointment.
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This 'War' Might Never End— Because the 'Global War on Terror' is not a real war. It's a rhetorical device.
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CD Review: Scott Walker - The Drift— Scott Walker's primeval, visceral 'music of the future.'
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Satire: How to Become an Onion Ring Connoisseur— What you might not have known about onion rings that you should probably know about.
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TV Review: American Idol Final Six— Reviews of each contestant, plus a quick summary of the judges' behaviors and a prediction of who will lose.
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Thoughts on Winesburg, Ohio: We Are Always The Heroes of Our Own Lives— Sherwood Anderson's classic novel examines absolute truth in a non-absolute world.
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US Rejection of DP World Shows Irrational Fear— The rejection of DP worlds shows that the House would rather save its own skin than find real solutions.
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The Column Joel Stein Should Have Written— Stein wrote a column that was idiotic and poorly thought-out. Here's what he should have said.
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Is Nothing Sacred?— A discussion of when religion is helpful, and when it is not.
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Drop Shot Tennis Off-Season Report— Tennis news from the off-season, and some notes on the upcoming Australian Open.
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Boanthropy— Though uncommon, boanthropy, or a belief that you are a cow, is a problem with which we all must cope.
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New Year's Resolution: To Move, Somewhere— I changed couches. It was a start. Suddenly, everything was new. The fan overhead sounded slightly different. I could no longer see through the
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Bad Poetry: Everyone I Love Really Hates My Guts— A parody of teen love poems of a type that I'm sure everyone is familiar with.
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Intelligent Design: The Difference Between Natural and Supernatural— All ID is is an effort to muddy the waters; to change science into politics. In politics, it is run of the mill to come
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CD Review: Shades of Jade by Marc Johnson— Perhaps I'm spoiled by Jaco Pastorius, but I wish that Johnson would be less polite to his fellow musicians and spend some more time in
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War— A vivid description.
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Tom Fox And Quaker Courage— There is courage in the spiritual battle that Tom Fox and other pacifists in Iraq have endured.
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UN Still Doing Stuff— I'm as surprised as you. Here's a quick rundown, with helpful illustrations.
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How Bush Spent His Thanksgiving Holiday— Bush rode a bicycle and ate Green Beans Supreme. Meanwhile, antiwar protesters drank from cups labeled "Iraqi Tea."
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: What Makes a Match Good or Bad, and Shanghai Masters Cup
— Watching tennis is a gamble: sometimes both players are brilliant, sometimes you're watching Safin whine; Shanghai Masters summary.
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Exit Strategies: A Few Ideas— I heard that Bush was having trouble with exit strategies, so I thought I'd give him a few suggestions.
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How to Bowl— I went bowling today. I am bad at it. There are thousands of wonderful tips on how to become good at bowling. Some of
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Bush's Favorite Words— A glossary of Bushite vocabulary.
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Fans Mob Boy Band B5 at Mall Concert— B5 was mobbed by over 2,000 teenage girls at a free mall concert in Minnesota.
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Bush's Veterans Day Speech— Everyone knows these guys are bad, but Bush spends half the speech talking about just how bad they are. I am, and I think
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Forbes Attacks the Blogs— More irresponsible than most of the bloggers it condemns, Forbes fears the future and is stuck in the past.
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Miers Withdraws: Who Will Bush Pick Next?— Bush is going to want to slink out of this mess with as little noise as possible, and to do that he'll have to find
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Bad News: A week of death, destruction, doom, and denial— The world is a terrible place. Too often reporters are inclined to focus on the 'good,' on supposedly 'positive' developments. Too often the
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Harriet Miers: Policy or Principle?— Miers will not 'move the court' in the way that conservatives might wish, and she certainly won't be a leader, but the Supreme Court has
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A Bible and a Bullhorn— When the protest was over, both sides had yelled, exchanged pamphlets, rung bells, quoted the Bible, and played sirens. What neither had done was listen
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Anti-Torture Amendment and White House response— ...
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Bush Loves Miers's Homestyle Cookin'— The real reason for the nomination can only be described as a personal one. Bush rewards loyalty with jobs.
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Memo to High School Faculty— ...
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Support Our Troops Weekend— ...
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Should the Dems support Roberts?— If the Democrats try and wage all out war on every front they're going to scream themselves into irrelevance. A better strategy...
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School Papers: The Crucible— ...
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'We will build higher': Bush speech summary and commentary— I have to wonder how well this approach of everyone sitting down in a big circle and trying to work together is going to work.
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: US Open Mens wrapup.— The most notable match in the first round was the only significant upset in that round, Gilles Muller's defeat of Andy Roddick. Although I
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In swift move, Bush nominates Roberts as Rehnquist successor— What exactly does Durbin expect to find in these memoranda? Even if they make a legal argument for the use of thumb-screws, Republicans can point
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: Blake defeats Nadal in four set upset.— ...
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Don't do drugs, kids.— "If only," said one student, "I could have made out the words that the agenda book told me. They were all blurry. But if
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Not My Kind of Town— My Kind of Town turns small towns into clown shows.
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Pass the Biscuits, Kinky: Friedman runs for Texas governor— Can the swearing, cigar smoking leader of 'The Texas Jewboys' become Governor of Texas? Why the hell not?
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: Cincinnati Masters— Ginepri makes a solid run, Nadal exits early, Roddick finally beats Hewitt, and Federer wins again.
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: Rogers Masters Over-view, and Nadal v. Agassi
— Tournament summary and commentary on Bjorkman v Agassi, Nadal v Puerta, and Nadal v Agassi.
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Sheehan Wants Another Talk— "That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together."
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Drop Shot Tennis Report: Rogers Masters First Round— Match summaries of Nadal v. Moya and Mathieu v. Roddick, and stats.
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Discovery Lands Safely— ...
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March of the Penguins Review— ...
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Media scrambles to find something, anything, to attack Roberts with
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Freedom-seeking missiles— Taking action in the name of positive reinforcement.
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Frist backs expanded stem cell research— ...
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