Paranoid Pranab: India’s Two Faced Foreign Minister

"By AHMED QURAISHI Tuesday, 6 January 2008. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—During the entire Pak-India crisis, India’s foreign minister Pranab ‘Paranoid’ Mukherjee has shown himself to be a four-legged clown. Since early December, Mr. Mukherjee has changed more positions...

Suddenly, the Paranoids Don't Seem So Paranoid Anymore

Often convenience has pushed me to give out personal information. Or a sense futility that there is any hope of keeping information private. But Google's Street View brings a new factor into the discussion. Especially for those of us whose home is situated near the...

Diebold and Stealing the Vote: The Hack Saga Continues

Many on NowPublic have brought Diebold's questionable security to light in the recent past; this is yet another point in the case for paper ballots. "Imagine if all it took to get inside widely-used Diebold electronic voting machines--perhaps with malicious intentions, such...

When Public Schools Aren't Color-Blind

"Louisville's racial guidelines keep its schools from having too many or too few black students. Most parents like the policy. Will the Supreme Court strike it down? Stephanie Brown admits that moving from a small Kentucky town into sprawling Louisville made her a "very...

Fear for others kept Austrian teen in 'dungeon' - Globe and Mail

" 'Paranoid' captor threatened to kill neighbours if she attempted to escape ESTANISLAO OZIEWICZ With reports from AP and Reuters Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch said yesterday that while she constantly yearned for freedom during her 8½-year captivity, she held...

Paranoia in Online Fandom

"Lately I seem to be thinking a great deal about the particular type of paranoiac thinking that often seems to characterize fandom interactions, and which most particularly seems always to rear its head whenever people become involved in on-line kerfuffles or disputes. For...

US 'War President' is 0 for 2 in battle against axis of evil

"Since there's very little the United States can do to respond to the North Korean missile tests, other governments are driving events. Japan wants immediate sanctions against the North Koreans, but it's unclear who's ready to impose them. South Korea, fearing how the...

US Re-Deploys Sick Soldiers on Meds

Both Army and Marine medical officers admit that some troops suffering from combat-induced psychological problems are being returned to war zones with a supply of medications. An absolute minimum of 10 percent of those returning home from war zones has a mental health...