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Paradigm Shift: Don't Read Today's Newspaper, Read Yesterday's
(09.04.2007)
One often hears that hindsight is 20/20. Why is it then, that newspapers are full of predictions and fuzzy foresight? If you want to understand how to discern which of those modern predictions are garbage, read the old ones. 411's Greg Allen tells you why you need to start looking through the archives. |
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Ding Dong the Witch is Gone
(08.28.2007)
Thoughts on the resignation of Alberto Gonzales |
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Paradigm Shift: Gas Tax Q & A
(08.21.2007)
After getting some really good email, Greg Allen takes the time to address some of the more common misconceptions about the most significant action the government could take to fight global warming: raising the gas tax. |
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Paradigm Shift: How to Think About Global Warming
(08.14.2007)
A brief addressing of the rumors going around on conservative blogs about falsified NASA data, and then one of the more plausible disaster scenarios, a very important discussion for skeptics. |
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Paradigm Shift: Bridges Schmidges
(08.07.2007)
In an act that will surely make him the most unpopular man on the internet, Greg explains why you shouldn't worry about your local bridge collapsing under you. Plus, how to easily prevent mine disasters and why the new terrorism law would make fast friends with Darth Vader. |
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Paradigm Shift: Thoughts on Politics and Aliens
(07.24.2007)
Do you remember that classic scene in the first Matrix movie when Agent Smith explains to Neo his conclusion on human nature? "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet." |
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Paradigm Shift: Are You Hearing All the Facts?
(07.17.2007)
It's a experimentally validated fact, you watch the news in the wrong way. Thankfully, there's a cure. |
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Paradigm Shift: A History Lesson, Why Some Voters Have to be Left Behind
(07.10.2007)
Even during the height of the Watergate scandal, Nixon enjoyed approval ratings of 39%. There's a reason our country didn't listen to that sizable minority, it's the same reason we should stop letting the current, even smaller, minority control our country now. |
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Paradigm Shift: Michael Moore's Values
(07.03.2007)
Somewhere along the way, Moore picked up the line "There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers." For health care reform, Moore's simple answer is that the profit incentive to provide less care has got to go. With Sicko that simple answer looks like Moore's best work yet. |
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Somebody Sign Mitt Romney Up For Some
(06.12.2007)
Let's say I don't even care about the whole "Double Guantanamo" mess, Mitt's assertion that torture didn't occur there still flies in the face of all evidence, including the Government's internal investigations. When Mitt says "Enhanced Interrogation," what he means is "I don't have the analytical skills to be president. Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. |
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Study Reveals: Founding Fathers Right About Everything
(06.05.2007)
Exciting new evidence why we can all rest easy knowing every political problem was solved 200 years ago. Greg Allen weighs in with another edition of Paradigm Shift. |
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Paradigm Shift: The Wikipedia Revolution
(05.29.2007)
The first attempt at collecting all human knowledge was the ancient library of Alexandria. The attempt was admirable, but it pales in comparison to the exponential growth and limitless potential of Wikipedia. What might we expect from a world where people can find out the answers to virtually all of their questions? Greg Allen weighs in with another edition of Paradigm Shift. |
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Less Butter, More Guns in Japan
(05.15.2007)
It was always a bit abnormal that the pacifist constitution of Japan was written by a general. Looks like it wasn't meant to last either. "Normal" is making a comeback in Japan. Normal, by the way, means lots and lots of guns. |
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Hey Candidates, If You Want to Run an Anti-War Campaign, Start Talking About Oil
(05.08.2007)
Republicans are getting off easy in the early debates by saying the Iraq War was a failure because of poor management. The truth is that the basic premise of how to go about founding Iraqi Democracy has been bunk from the start. So long as the Iraqi government is making all its money from oil, it doesn't need to care about its people. |
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Sheryl Crow Said What?
(04.24.2007)
If you ask her, the real problem with Global Warming is that you poop too much, or at least that you use too much paper when you wipe. In another edition of Paradigm Shift, Greg Allen tells you why Sheryl Crow is a genius. |
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Three Cheers for Intelligent Design... But Not for the Reason You Might Think
(04.17.2007)
Were someone today to assert that Earth is controlled by an extended family of jealous and violent gods and goddesses, who often descend upon Earth and affect the course of human events, it's safe to say virtually all Americans would view this person as an idiot.
They would be wrong. |
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Paradigm Shift: A Libertarian Approach to Censorship? Not So Much.
(04.10.2007)
Everywhere you look today girls are getting older, younger. Are we raising an entire generation of whores? Greg Allen weighs in with another edition of Paradigm Shift. |
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Paradigm Shift: Moving Towards the Right Mindset in American Politics
(04.03.2007)
Let's face it, American politics sucks. New 411 Columnist Greg Allen sets out to explain why and what you can do about it. |
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