The Voice of Rosen

The ones who got us into the economic mess we're in thought Atlas Shrugged was a primer for modeling a society--rather than just a work of (bad) fiction. Their solution to the problems they caused? Read Atlas Shrugged...

Everyone seemed to be anticipating a new version of the Mac mini would be announced at the Macworld conference today. But then... nothing.

Jon Stewart engaged in a little "dialogue with a demagogue" when he interviewed Bill O'Reilly last week on The Daily Show. Worth watching.

Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama this past Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. What hit home was not as much how he endorsed Obama as how he disowned the heinous defamatory tactics of the right.

Surprise! Conservatives and liberals have very different attitudes and values when it comes to the "social contract", particularly when it comes to the issue of taxes and the purpose of government. Do you know which way your own attitudes and values lean... and why?

The common complaint is that American politics suffers from excessive polarization. Rich thinks the problem is just the opposite.

Monday brought us several articles about the way "the future" used to be. I predict that we will see more of the same...

Security guru Bruce Schneier suggests that the cloud of fear being cast over us about the dangers of terrorism is nothing more than a war on anything different--unorthodox, unusual, or unexpected--marginalizing anything out of the ordinary and instantly categorizing it as a terror threat.

According to this article at Forbes.com, there's one place where Vista beats Leopard--speech recognition... huh?

You might disagree with the ordering, or even with the presence here of some of your personal favorites. But at last, the list is complete: here are the worst lyricists of all time.

Days after receiving yet another Emmy, Jon Stewart interviews the former Fed head.

The Daily Show's chief ranter gives TV executives a piece of his mind...

After Y2K, you thought it was safe to go back in the water when it came to date processing in application software... think again.