Author: mike

I think the idea of offering basically disposable TV for single item licence fees ala Apple is going to be a constrained market. Most of what people watch on TV they consider disposable. It...

I don’t hate Apple. I don’t even hate Apple-lovers. I do, however, possess deep odium for the legions of Apple polishers in the press corps who salute every shiny gadget the company parades through...

I was a scientist before I was a politician … And as a scientist I know you need facts, evidence and proof — and then you check, recheck and check again. The fact was...

George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the necons who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their owna political one: Blame the Administration. Their...

Thanks to the Apple Herd Effect, following Apple’s belated addition of video to the ipod featureset, I assume there will now be a critical mass of video-enabled personal media devices. It’s been a lonely...

Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer says he’s perfectly comfortable with the unlikely...

“President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, “George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.” And I did, and then God would tell...

A decision made earlier this month by the city of New York to allow a Jewish religious court to rule on the public safety of a circumcision practice called metzizah b’peh (oral suction) has...

After cutting off U.S. access to a key military base, Uzbekistan has also quietly terminated cooperation with Washington on counterterrorism … The government of President Islam Karimov, one of the most authoritarian to emerge...

[Flatley] has compared Irish step dancing to “having four or five orgasms and seeing how many you can go.” … With his pants casually unbuttoned, Flatley gives off a kind of tortured, middle-aged sexuality,...