When Is a Holiday Greeting an Insult?

When you interpret it that way. For the past few years the Right-wing, with the help of Bill O’ Reilly and other pundits have been waging a “War for Christmas” by trying to force people to say “Merry Christmas” as opposed to “Happy Holidays”.

Personally, I’ve always celebrated Christmas …

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A Proposed Solution to the Nuclear Distribution Problem

Background:

Political scientists, scientists, politicians, generals, and journalists have devoted an extraordinary amount of time trying to figure out ways to keep WMD from being distributed to people who would use them against the US or allies. The history of the secrecy and distribution of WMD has become large and …
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Howto - Drupal Install on Debian or Ubuntu

UPDATE 10-28-2007: Revised for Drupal 5.

This is a how-to guide to install drupal (drupal runs this site) on Debian or Ubuntu.

Background:

I am running apache2 and mysql. All of my software packages were initially installed with apt-get. But when I did a “apt-get install drupal” I would always …

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Debunking Mormonism

I have been wanting to research and write an article like this for some time, but Kyle J. Gerkin beat me to it, and now I don’t have to. This is a beautiful article debunking Mormonism. Here is the mirrored article link (the original version is no longer available …

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