Tomorrow is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it’s packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type — passwords, credit card numbers, etc. — and send that information back [...]

What do being gay and a Chicano have in common?
Before we answer that question, we need to start dispelling a few terms. In this discussion the following terms will be interchanged: Homosexual, LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). Those terms all mean something to those who either classify themselves under or [...]

Alison Lurie
The Guardian
Most enormously successful children’s books, like Harry Potter, become successful films within a few years of their publication. But there is one odd exception: CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has taken 55 years to reach the screen. Or maybe it is not so odd. On first reading, this story [...]

I have been given the opportunity to teach 5th graders; finger painting set aside, reading a story no more, sleeping on the carpet long forgotten, these kids have started their venture into the educational system a few years ago. They should all have gotten the tools to begin their educational experience by the [...]

The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1919 to 1921 on suspected radical leftist citizens and immigrants in the United States, the legality of which is now in question. The raids are named for Alexander Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney [...]