SOUNDING BOARD is an outlet for opinions on good and crazy things going on at home (wherever I may be). All are welcome. You are not expected to bring anything except your common sense & sense of humor.
'If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.'
-Robert X. Cringely (from geek wisdom)
... it is the best alternative we have, barring the possibility of having a benevolent dictator. Of course that's debatable, but if you come from a mismanaged democracy, you'll understand my sentiment.
Incidentally, whenever I read The Atlantic Online, I remember a friend and a mentor back in graduate school - Craig Warren Smith. When I was writing a short paper on soft power and counter-terrorism (a section was discussed in SOUNDING BOARD), he showed me an article in the printed version of The Atlantic. He mentioned that The Atlantic is a good one and 'it is what intellectuals read' (his words; this is not an advertisement). I chuckled. It only took one article to entice me to read the whole edition. I now check the online version regularly, thanks to Craig.
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